Has anybody tried running Ubuntu Ultimate Edition with Mystic BBS? Is it even possible?

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The Millionaire wrote to All <=-

Has anybody tried running Ubuntu Ultimate Edition with Mystic
BBS? Is it even possible?

Why wouldn't it be possible? It will run on any Linux distro.
Why do you keep asking the same dumb question on multiple
networks?



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Why wouldn't it be possible? It will run on any Linux distro.
Why do you keep asking the same dumb question on multiple
networks?

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Perhaps so I can reach more people with my messages because some don’t go to certain networks.

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Gamgee wrote to The Millionaire <=-

Has anybody tried running Ubuntu Ultimate Edition with Mystic
BBS? Is it even possible?

Why wouldn't it be possible? It will run on any Linux distro.
Why do you keep asking the same dumb question on multiple
networks?

When I was first starting out with thinking of setting up a BBS, I suspect
I may have asked a lot of stupid questions like this also, and I may have
also forgot that I had already asked. I was not as computer literate as I
am now. I was also ~18 years old. :)


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Perhaps so I can reach more people with my messages because some don’t go to certain networks.

Mystic will work on any linux that works on a PC. This is the answer today
and forever.

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When I was first starting out with thinking of setting up a BBS, I
suspect I may have asked a lot of stupid questions like this also, and I

Really? You think your posts were like The Millionaire's?

Odd. My first go 'round, as a teen, I mostly remember getting into long messages, oftentimes with flamewars over grammar and spelling.

Heck, as a 13-year-old, I kept track of the length of my messages that I was posting on Prodigy, and man I was never at a loss for typed words.

Looking back at some of my writing, my grammar and spelling was terrible, but the flamewars probably improved it.

Beyond that, I'm still entertained by my paper that talked about the "mid-evil" era, as well as by my BBS writings that referenced the INTERnet.

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Adept wrote to Blue White <=-

Odd. My first go 'round, as a teen, I mostly remember getting into long messages, oftentimes with flamewars over grammar and spelling.

One of my regrets over the years was that I didn't keep backups of the early days of my BBS. We grew up, we experienced things for the first time - first relationships, first breakups, first jobs, first firings, and lived through
a time that feels unique.

We documented it all, and too much of it was lost in the aether.

I have one CD-R of the BBS as it stood in 2000, the rest is long gone.




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Adept wrote to Blue White <=-

When I was first starting out with thinking of setting up a BBS, I
suspect I may have asked a lot of stupid questions like this also, and I

Really? You think your posts were like The Millionaire's?

Well, I don't remember getting as much flack for them, so maybe not. :)
Also, many of the boards I would have been asking the questions on were real-name-only systems so I think that may have prevented responses from
being quite as pointed. I am sure I asked some questions that would sound really dumb to me now. :)

Odd. My first go 'round, as a teen, I mostly remember getting into long messages, oftentimes with flamewars over grammar and spelling.

I do remember my messages being longer then than now for sure.

Beyond that, I'm still entertained by my paper that talked about the "mid-evil" era, as well as by my BBS writings that referenced the INTERnet.

So you were writing about the current era back then?!? :D



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time - first relationships, first breakups, first jobs, first firings,
and lived through a time that feels unique.

We documented it all, and too much of it was lost in the aether.

Yeah. I suppose I'm both sad and relieved on those points.

I have some amount of backups, but I don't really have messages -- because messages got deleted after a while, because everything was temporary.

But it's not as if I have recordings of all the phone calls or conversations
I had at the time, either -- just some photographs and whatever it is that I wrote down intentionally.

Which, mind you, was still a fair amount of stuff. But not quite like the amount of e-mail I'm able to look back on if I were so inclined.

But it's probably also nice to forget some of the things I wrote, as I assume my grammar and spelling were a work in progress, and I would've vehemently disagreed with myself on a variety of topics. And really don't want most of what I did at the time to be easily available to anyone but me.

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Beyond that, I'm still entertained by my paper that talked about the "mid-evil" era, as well as by my BBS writings that referenced the INTERnet.

So you were writing about the current era back then?!? :D

Hah! Not sure if we were "mid" on the evil, and the INTERnet was definitely
the Information Superhighway to the future.

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On 01 Feb 2020, Blue White said the following...

When I was first starting out with thinking of setting up a BBS, I
suspect I may have asked a lot of stupid questions like this also, and I may have also forgot that I had already asked. I was not as computer literate as I am now. I was also ~18 years old. :)

The issue is more that TM's questions are often too terse and the subject so overly specific and/or unresearched that there's usually no common ground for anyone to start a conversation. So they often go unanswered, or somebody gets fed up and wields their keyboard in anger.

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We documented it all, and too much of it was lost in the aether.

I have some amount of backups, but I don't really have messages -- because messages got deleted after a while, because everything was temporary.

I lost all the original message bases with the hard drives a loooong time ago.
I found a 4-5 message snap shot recently, in the demo QWK packet in an Apple IIgs QWK reader. :)

Spec


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Static wrote to Blue White <=-

The issue is more that TM's questions are often too terse and the
subject so overly specific and/or unresearched that there's usually no common ground for anyone to start a conversation. So they often go unanswered, or somebody gets fed up and wields their keyboard in anger.

Point taken there. I usually do not have any type of helpful answers to
most questions he asks or scenarios he presents.


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One of my regrets over the years was that I didn't keep backups of the early days of my BBS. We grew up, we experienced things for the first
time - first relationships, first breakups, first jobs, first firings,
and lived through a time that feels unique.

I have local and WWIVnet posts over here dating back to 1992. Before all my kids were born. All kept in my read only archive subs that are part of history.

- Mark
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