• Re: Linux and Fido

    From Phillip L Taylor Jr@1:275/201.30 to Gerrit Kuehn on Friday, February 05, 2021 23:02:44
    Mon 3-Feb-2020 12:31


    03 Feb 20 10:06, Alexey Vissarionov wrote to Kai Richter:

    If it's cheap you are the product. Why don't you get a raspberry
    pi and setup your point on that?

    RPi is approx. 60 EUR - that would be quite enough to run a 1 EUR/month VM (either VPS or even VDS) for 5 years.

    The point here was that it's affordable enough... anything else is just "cheaper" with all the drawbacks that come with that.

    Should work with raspian or FreeBSD.

    Neither of these could be used for a sensitive system.

    Who wants a sensitive system, anyway? I prefer robust (if not resilient) systems.

    I am running two bbs systems one is running CNet on the Amiga and the other is SBBS behing hosted on Debian. The SBBS system has 4 TB HD.
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  • From Phillip L Taylor Jr@1:275/201.30 to Tony Langdon on Friday, February 05, 2021 23:07:02
    On Wed 5-Feb-2020 14:13 , Tony Langdon@3:633/410.0 said to Karel Kral:


    And then you also get the choice of offline mail, if you want. :)

    SBBS is easy to setup and it will run under linux.
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  • From Karel Kral@2:423/39 to Phillip L Taylor Jr on Saturday, February 06, 2021 07:08:58
    Hello Phillip!

    05 Feb 21 23:07, you wrote to Tony Langdon:

    And then you also get the choice of offline mail, if you want. :)

    Speaking about low cost:

    Just to complete info. Hosting fido point in Azure cloud shell just after 1 year (as services which are "for free 1 year" - and service which should be for free for ever - changed a bit). Until now (1 year already) it was for 0 EUR/month. Actually it changed to 0.1 EUR/month (80MB in total, 12MB in message base).

    [in detail: golded 28MB, crashmail 0.5MB, htick 0.8MB, binkd 1.3MB - the rest is conf and filearea + msg]

    Karel

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  • From Tony Langdon@3:633/410 to Phillip L Taylor Jr on Sunday, February 07, 2021 19:18:00
    On 02-05-21 23:07, Phillip L Taylor Jr wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

    On Wed 5-Feb-2020 14:13 , Tony Langdon@3:633/410.0 said to Karel Kral:


    And then you also get the choice of offline mail, if you want. :)

    SBBS is easy to setup and it will run under linux.

    True, though why are you telling me? I'm already running it under Linux. :)


    ... I.R.S.: We've got what it takes to take what you've got!
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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Tony Langdon on Sunday, February 07, 2021 06:40:18

    On 2021 Feb 07 19:18:00, you wrote to Phillip L Taylor Jr:

    And then you also get the choice of offline mail, if you want. :)

    SBBS is easy to setup and it will run under linux.

    True, though why are you telling me? I'm already running it under Linux. :)

    because after all these years, he still doesn't know how to find, quote, and reply to the proper message... back in November, he hit me with a message about buying windows and he wondered why i responded the way i did... he was actually trying to respond to a message from someone else that was written *10 months* earlier...

    )\/(ark

    "The soul of a small kitten in the body of a mighty dragon. Look on my majesty, ye mighty, and despair! Or bring me catnip. Your choice. Oooh, a shiny thing!"
    ... Franklin invented electricity by rubbing two cats backwards.
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  • From Tony Langdon@3:633/410 to mark lewis on Wednesday, February 10, 2021 19:38:00
    On 02-07-21 06:40, mark lewis wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

    True, though why are you telling me? I'm already running it under Linux. :)

    because after all these years, he still doesn't know how to find,
    quote, and reply to the proper message... back in November, he hit me
    with a message about buying windows and he wondered why i responded the way i did... he was actually trying to respond to a message from
    someone else that was written *10 months* earlier...

    Hmm, how to confuse everyone. :)


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