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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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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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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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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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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