Last update 11-Jan-2004
Last update 12-Sep-2007
Unix Distributions.
Which distribution
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ GNU/Linux is available in several distributions, they all have advantages and disadvantages for bbs use. Which distribution to pick is very personal. Since late 2001 a port to FreeBSD is available, from version 0.33.19 this port is ready to use. -Since januari 2002 a port to NetBSD is available, this version is not ready for -use. +Since januari 2002 a port to NetBSD is available, later other *BSD versions +were added.
Slackware
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ setup for MBSE BBS like Zipslack. Not included is the mgetty package.I write this as if these are the same which isn't true of course. From MBSE BBS's point of view they are almost the same, so that's why I treat them as -the same distributions. The E-Smith server and gateway based on Redhat is also +the same distributions. The E-Smith server and gateway based on RedHat is also supported. For people with little GNU/Linux experience these distributions are a good choice if you can spare the diskspace. I haven't @@ -59,33 +59,43 @@ The installation works on a Debian 2.1, 2.2 and 3.0 distribution without any pro How to build an optimized Debian system is not tested by me.
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Ubuntu
++Since 0.91.10 the installation on Ubuntu 7.04 works fine. Read the file README.Ubuntu in +the source for more information. +
+
GenToo
-Installation and startup scripts are tested on GenToo. +Installation and startup scripts are tested on GenToo. Read the file README.Gentoo for +more information.
FreeBSD
-I tested on FreeBSD 3.2, 4.4 and 4.7 stable releases. +I tested on FreeBSD 6.2 stable release. Older releases have been used and work. The setup is quite simple, do a small setup (average user), and add some needed packages -from the ports collection such as gcc, mgetty, infozip etc. The test machine -has a 500 MB harddisk, about 250 MB is still free. Note that the older -precompiled mgetty packages may not always have Fidonet support compiled in. +from the ports collection such as gcc, mgetty, infozip etc. You may need to build mgetty yourself if you have an older FreeBSD distribution.
NetBSD
-I use an old Sun Sparcstation 2 with NetBSD 1.5.2. This is more stable then -GNU/Linux on Sparc systems. Only network connections are tested. +Currently NetBSD 3.1 is used for the latest tests. NetBSD before 3.0 doesn't +work anymore. +
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OpenBSD
++Currently OpenBSD 3.7 is used for testing.
Famous last words...
-I don't have the diskspace for all kinds of GNU/Linux distributions to install -at the same time, with the current size of GNU/Linux, I only have 2 versions -installed. Also, I don't buy every new distro that's available. If you have -a problem with that, just send me the new distro on CD to test by snailmail. +I don't have the diskspace and time for all kinds of GNU/Linux distributions +to install for testing. Most distributions work without major changes. For +questions about "unsupported" distributions, the best place to be is in the +MBSE support echo.
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