Hello all,

I know of some, but I'd like to hear from you about BBS software that you know runs on Linux. Then maybe we can have an FAQ fo this echo.

Thanks!



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I know of some, but I'd like to hear from you about BBS software that
you know runs on Linux. Then maybe we can have an FAQ fo this echo.

Mystic was the first DOS-based package ported to Linux back in the 90s and its still actively developed now (and always has been free). Its available for Windows, Linux, OSX, and ARM Linux (Raspberry Pi).

http://www.mysticbbs.com

Synchronet, BBBS, MBSE, and Daydream are some others I know are still maintained and have Linux versions, although the last two I don't know what their status is. I can't think of any more off hand.

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Hello Eric!

Sunday August 17 2014 13:19, you wrote to All:_

I know of some, but I'd like to hear from you about BBS software that
you know runs on Linux. Then maybe we can have an FAQ fo this echo.

Mbse available via sourceforge works well with Linux, mind you it is only for Linux/*nix and OSX.



Vince

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I know of some, but I'd like to hear from you about BBS software that you kn

runs on Linux. Then maybe we can have an FAQ fo this echo.

BBBS
MBSE
Synchronet
Mystic

To name a few...

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Hola Eric!

Hello all,
I know of some, but I'd like to hear from you about BBS software that you know runs on Linux. Then maybe we can have an FAQ fo this echo.

Elebbs run in Linux. www.elebbs.com

Saludos!
Fercho.-

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On 08/18/14, Vince Coen said the following...

I know of some, but I'd like to hear from you about BBS software that you know runs on Linux. Then maybe we can have an FAQ fo this echo.

Mbse available via sourceforge works well with Linux, mind you it is
only for Linux/*nix and OSX.

There is also a Linux port of Mystic BBS available, too :)

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Hi Eric,

I know of some, but I'd like to hear from you about BBS software that you know
runs on Linux. Then maybe we can have an FAQ fo this echo.

Good idea :)

BBBS runs really well under linux.. it's shareware, not freeware, but the author did reduce the cost sometime in the past and still supports the product and updates it.

I think I ran the shareware version for about 6 months until I was sure it would do the job for me, when I switched from OS/2 to Linux. It really includes everything you can think of for running a bbs in Fidonet.

Take care,
Janis

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Re: What BBS Software Runs on Linux?
By: Eric Pareja to All on Sun Aug 17 2014 01:19 pm

I know of some, but I'd like to hear from you about BBS software that you know runs on Linux. Then maybe we can have an FAQ fo this echo.

Unless its already been mentioned, Daydream is linux
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El 04/05/15 a las 18:41, "Chad Sharp" escibi≤:

Re: What BBS Software Runs on Linux?
By: Eric Pareja to All on Sun Aug 17 2014 01:19 pm

I know of some, but I'd like to hear from you about BBS software that

you

know runs on Linux. Then maybe we can have an FAQ fo this echo.

Unless its already been mentioned, Daydream is linux
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You can use Synchronet BBS, http://www.syncho.net
it run very well on gnu/linux
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On 05/04/15, Chad Sharp said the following...

Re: What BBS Software Runs on Linux?
By: Eric Pareja to All on Sun Aug 17 2014 01:19 pm

Mystic, of course :)

Thanks!
Allen
Orbit BBS - Opp, AL USA
telnet: orbitbbs.com

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On 05/04/15, Chad Sharp said the following...

Re: What BBS Software Runs on Linux?
By: Eric Pareja to All on Sun Aug 17 2014 01:19 pm

Mystic, of course :)

And BBBS.. but it's not freeware, it's shareware...

Very reasonable and still being updated. Free is nice though so I understand Mystic being popular :)

Take care,
Janis

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On 05/07/15, Janis Kracht said the following...

On 05/04/15, Chad Sharp said the following...

Re: What BBS Software Runs on Linux?

And BBBS.. but it's not freeware, it's shareware...

Very reasonable and still being updated. Free is nice though so I understand Mystic being popular :)

Nothing wrong with shareware. If Mystic were shareware, I would have no problem paying for it.

Thanks!
Allen
Orbit BBS - Opp, AL USA
telnet: orbitbbs.com

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Hello Janis,

On 05/04/15, Chad Sharp said the following...

Re: What BBS Software Runs on Linux?

Synchronet, Mystic, MBSE BBS, EleBBS, Maximus and I'm sure I have forgotten about others..

Mystic, of course :)

And BBBS.. but it's not freeware, it's shareware...

Very reasonable and still being updated. Free is nice though so I understand Mystic being popular :)

Mystic's popularity goes beyond it's freeness. I was very surprised at it's featues and functionality/stability. I have a couple registered BBS packages and to echo what Allen said I would register Mystic in a heartbeat.

It's a very old school BBS package with internet servers. :)

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Hello Alan!

08 May 15 08:15, you wrote to Janis Kracht:

Synchronet, Mystic, MBSE BBS, EleBBS, Maximus and I'm sure I have forgotten about others..

Those are the major ones! I would say Maximus doesn't count though as
it's not really usable. ;) There was a RA clone (like MBSE) a number of years ago that was amazing, but I can't remember the name, and I wish I could because it would be a good one to find the source for.

It's a very old school BBS package with internet servers. :)

I still run a DOS BBS, but I agree. Mystic is pretty darn close
to perfect. (Especially when talking about Linux BBSes - IMO of course)

Shawn


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Hello Shawn,

On 09 May 15 16:56, Shawn Highfield wrote to Alan Ianson:

Those are the major ones! I would say Maximus doesn't count though
as it's not really usable. ;) There was a RA clone (like MBSE) a
number of years ago that was amazing, but I can't remember the name,
and I wish I could because it would be a good one to find the source
for.

Wasn't that EleBBS?

Regards,
Nick

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Following up a post on Sat, 09 May 2015, from Nicholas Boel to Shawn Highfield:

Those are the major ones! I would say Maximus doesn't count
though as it's not really usable. ;) There was a RA clone (like
MBSE) a number of years ago that was amazing, but I can't remember
the name, and I wish I could because it would be a good one to
find the source for.

Wasn't that EleBBS?

if it were elebbs, the pascal source is definitely available... it is also FPC compatible, i think... maybe not... it may have been VP compatible... i don't recall but i have it here from its github repository ;) maybe not the absolute latest but i do have what is there... IIRC, a fella in Z3 might have more up to
date sources... the question is if and how they may be available...

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Hello Alan!

May 08 08:15 2015, Alan Ianson wrote to Janis Kracht:

Re: What BBS Software Runs on Linux?

Synchronet, Mystic, MBSE BBS, EleBBS, Maximus and I'm sure I have forgotten about others..

Daydream and t-bbs for example.

Regards,
Markus

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On 05/09/15, Shawn Highfield said the following...

Those are the major ones! I would say Maximus doesn't count though as it's not really usable. ;) There was a RA clone (like MBSE) a number of years ago that was amazing, but I can't remember the name, and I wish I could because it would be a good one to find the source for.

If mex was working with Maximus I might very well be there today.. :)

It's a very old school BBS package with internet servers. :)

I still run a DOS BBS, but I agree. Mystic is pretty darn close
to perfect. (Especially when talking about Linux BBSes - IMO of course)

I still have a strong urge to run Telegard but a linux version was never made and DOS and OS/2 are not options at this point, although I remember fondly my OS/2 days..

tinysbbs.com is on my hitlist when I get out of these configurators one of these days I'll be there for a look and grab some files.. :)

Ttyl :-),
Al

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On 05/10/15, Markus Reschke said the following...

Daydream and t-bbs for example.

I was trying to remember the name Daydream the other day and t-bbs I have
never heard of. I saw mention of Telegard/2 (not OS/2) the other day but haven't looked further into it yet.

There is also Enthral BBS I was trying to remeber the other day. I see
someone running it on the Pi.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Hello Alan!

10 May 15 10:36, you wrote to me:

If mex was working with Maximus I might very well be there today.. :)

Good point!

tinysbbs.com is on my hitlist when I get out of these configurators
one of these days I'll be there for a look and grab some files.. :)

Sounds good Al!

Shawn


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Hello mark!

Saturday May 09 2015 22:12, mark lewis wrote to Shawn Highfield:

if it were elebbs, the pascal source is definitely available... it is
also FPC compatible, i think... maybe not... it may have been VP compatible... i don't recall but i have it here from its github
repository ;) maybe not the absolute latest but i do have what is
there... IIRC, a fella in Z3 might have more up to date sources... the question is if and how they may be available...

The last time I built EleBBS I used VP. I think it is possible to do it with FPC also, but I haven't tried it. The binaries I'm using at the moment are one
of the last versions that Scott Little compiled.

Andrew

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On Mon, 11 May 2015, Andrew Leary wrote to mark lewis:

if it were elebbs, the pascal source is definitely available... it
is also FPC compatible, i think... maybe not... it may have been
VP compatible... i don't recall but i have it here from its github repository ;) maybe not the absolute latest but i do have what is there... IIRC, a fella in Z3 might have more up to date sources...
the question is if and how they may be available...

The last time I built EleBBS I used VP. I think it is possible to
do it with FPC also, but I haven't tried it. The binaries I'm
using at the moment are one of the last versions that Scott Little compiled.

do you know if scott has a public accessible repo for his builds of ele??

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There is also Enthral BBS I was trying to remeber the other day. I see someone running it on the Pi.

Ouu, and honorable mention. :) Enthral is linux, ARM, BSD, OSX, but i need to iron out or rework some stuff to get a release out so people can play with
it one of these days. I work on it as time permits..

It takes after Iniquity / Oblivion/2 with a menu system and embedded python
for some sripting, some generic data areas like obv/2 had so you take some custom interfaces like last callers, code up MCI codes, then assign what
fields populate those codes.

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Hello Michael,

Ouu, and honorable mention. :) Enthral is linux, ARM, BSD, OSX, but i need to iron out or rework some stuff to get a release out so people can play with it one of these days. I work on it as time permits..

It takes after Iniquity / Oblivion/2 with a menu system and embedded python for some sripting, some generic data areas like obv/2 had so you take some custom interfaces like last callers, code up MCI codes, then assign what fields populate those codes.

I really like the choice between UTF-8 and CP437 when logging into Enthral that
I saw on your BBS the other day. I have been trying to work that out here as well and it looks like you have come up with a solution. I may have to implement something like that here as well as I have not been able to get CP437
support on newer distributions, at least not complete support. Maybe I just have to work on that but I think UTF-8 is what we need at the end of the day anyway.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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On Wed, 13 May 2015, Alan Ianson wrote to Michael Griffin:

[...] but I think UTF-8 is what we need at the end of the day
anyway.

that is the way things are going... i have several CP437 bbses here and cannot get full support in at least two OSes they run on... the other OS has 437 and 850 built in so i only had to set 437 as the default... it is rather aggrivating that our existing ANSI/ASCII screens cannot be used with some of the line drawing characters... they have to be converted to use the new glyphs for those characters which are in a much different position in the character table which is additionally much larger than the 256 positions we grew up with...

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[ On 2015-05-09 at 22:12:44, mark lewis wrote to Shawn Highfield ]

if it were elebbs, the pascal source is definitely available... it is
also FPC compatible, i think... maybe not... it may have been VP

Definitely VP compatible and more or less FPC compatible (I seem to remember an
issue with serial ports on particular versions of FPC).

compatible... i don't recall but i have it here from its github
repository ;)

Don't know how recent those are... I haven't done any work for a few years and I don't remember the last time Maarten did.

do you know if scott has a public accessible repo for his builds of
ele??

It's been so long since I've touched the source I don't remember what state it's in. Recompiled binaries from the current source tree, unsure if this revision has been tested though.

Source: http://sysgod.org/temp/20130208/elebbs-20130208_src.zip
OS/2 VirtualPascal: http://sysgod.org/temp/20130208/elebbs-20130208_os2vp.zip Win32 VirtualPascal: http://sysgod.org/temp/20130208/elebbs-20130208_w32vp.zip Win32 FreePascal: http://sysgod.org/temp/20130208/elebbs-20130208_w32fp.zip

The ones on my BBS are from 2008 (!!), except for EleServ which is more current
since that what I was working on mostly. Those old binaries are still on PCMicro: http://pcmicro.com/elebbs/binaries.htm


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On Tue, 19 May 2015, Scott Little wrote to mark lewis:

[ On 2015-05-09 at 22:12:44, mark lewis wrote to Shawn Highfield ]

if it were elebbs, the pascal source is definitely available... it
is also FPC compatible, i think... maybe not... it may have been VP

Definitely VP compatible and more or less FPC compatible (I seem
to remember an issue with serial ports on particular versions of
FPC).

yeah, i haven't done anything with it, yet... if/when i do, it will be with FPC...

compatible... i don't recall but i have it here from its github repository ;)

Don't know how recent those are... I haven't done any work for a
few years and I don't remember the last time Maarten did.

what's in maarten's github is v1.0 with a request to send him updates so he can
apply them... there have been no additions or updates since maarten created that repo...

do you know if scott has a public accessible repo for his builds
of ele??

It's been so long since I've touched the source I don't remember
what state it's in.

i can understand that :)

Recompiled binaries from the current source tree, unsure if this
revision has been tested though.

Source: http://sysgod.org/temp/20130208/elebbs-20130208_src.zip
OS/2 VirtualPascal: http://sysgod.org/temp/20130208/elebbs-20130208_os2vp.zip Win32 VirtualPascal:
http://sysgod.org/temp/20130208/elebbs-20130208_w32vp.zip Win32 FreePascal:
http://sysgod.org/temp/20130208/elebbs-20130208_w32fp.zip

The ones on my BBS are from 2008 (!!), except for EleServ which is
more current since that what I was working on mostly. Those old
binaries are still on PCMicro:
http://pcmicro.com/elebbs/binaries.htm

thanks... i'll take a look :)

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