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<h5>Last update 06-Jun-2001</h5>
<h5>Last update 29-Dec-2001</h5>
<P>&nbsp;<P>
<H1>Linux Distributions.</H1>
<H1>Unix Distributions.</H1>
<P>
<H3>Which distribution</H3>
<P>
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.
You should also consider the fact if the bbs machine is the same machine on
which you do your daily work on or if you use a seperate system for the bbs.
I will describe the distributions below for use on dedicated bbs computers,
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How to build an optimized Debian system is not tested by me.
<P>&nbsp;<P>
<H3>FreeBSD</H3>
<P>
I test on a FreeBSD 3.2 stable release. Newer releases will not run on the
hardware I have available. (Don't ask me why, they crash during install).
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.
You may need to build mgetty yourself if you have an older FreeBSD distribution.
<P>&nbsp;<P>
<H3>Famous last words...</H3>
<P>
I don't have the diskspace for all kinds of Linux distributions to install
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a problem with that, just send me the new distro on CD to test by snailmail.
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