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    From Lumni@VERT/LUMPLYHS to All on Thu Mar 19 06:02:00 2026
    I will be honest. I was really
    struggling getting this BBS software
    set up on my Slackware64 15.0 machine. I haven't done so much reading since I read Harry Potter :P.

    But once I read and looked for my
    answers, I was able to get it running
    pretty well.

    I wonder if it would run on BSD.

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  • From Accession@VERT/PHARCYDE to Lumni on Thu Mar 19 10:54:00 2026
    Hey Lumni!

    On Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:02:04 -0500, you wrote:

    I wonder if it would run on BSD.

    Yes. Yes it would. ;)

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Gamgee@VERT/PALANTIR to Lumni on Thu Mar 19 13:34:00 2026
    Lumni wrote to All <=-

    I will be honest. I was really
    struggling getting this BBS software
    set up on my Slackware64 15.0 machine. I haven't done so much reading since I read Harry Potter :P.

    Cool, glad you got it. It's refreshing to see a new sysop who's willing
    to actually put in the work required to get things going.

    But once I read and looked for my
    answers, I was able to get it running
    pretty well.

    I also run my board on Slackware64 and it's rock solid (which is no
    surprise).

    I wonder if it would run on BSD.

    It will.




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  • From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to Lumni on Thu Mar 19 14:00:00 2026
    Re: Synchronet BBS on Linux
    By: Lumni to All on Thu Mar 19 2026 06:02:05

    I haven't done so much reading since I read Harry Potter. But once I read and looked for my answers, I was able to get it running pretty well.

    Chalk one up for the printed page!

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Lumni on Fri Mar 20 10:55:00 2026
    Lumni wrote to All <=-

    I will be honest. I was really
    struggling getting this BBS software
    set up on my Slackware64 15.0 machine. I haven't done so much reading since I read Harry Potter :P.

    Back in the '90s. I was looking to migrate from Telegard/Frontdoor to
    Max/BinkleyTerm. I worked at a law firm where every page printed needed
    to be allocated to a client to be charged back, or scrutinized if it
    was unbillable.

    I was one of three people with access to the server room. One was a
    writer, and she'd discovered a lonely Laserjet 4M in the corner that
    wasn't connected to the print server. You could send jobs to it
    directly.

    I printed *reams* of BBS manuals while I was there...

    Aside: Many years later, I worked at a company where we outsourced
    print management to Xerox. They alerted us to a serious increase in
    page counts the last week of November. It turns out we had some budding
    writers in the company (myself included) who did National Novel Writing
    Month, a sprint to write a 45,000 word novel in 30 days during the
    month of November. Lots of completed novels got printed that month. :)



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