What would one need in terms of hardware and software to setup a BBS. I would like to use Trisquel GNU/Linux-libre as the operating system and obviosuly Synchronet as the BBS server.
A Pentium with 4GB of RAM could handle it..
A Pentium with 4GB of RAM could handle it..
What would one need in terms of hardware and software to setup a BBS. I would like to use Trisquel GNU/Linux-libre as the operating system and obviosuly Synchronet as the BBS server.
I have mine running on a CentOS 7 VPS with 1GB RAM and it runs just fine. I
besides sbbs is dosemu for dos doors, but it seems to work well enough. :)
a pentium with 512Meg of RAM with a 40Gig drive could easily handle it... i would hazard a guess that even a fast 486 would still be viable depending on the OS, the BBS package and the number of messages and files stored on the system... one certainly doesn't need any GUI c4rp to run a BBS :)
my BBS has only 384Meg of RAM on an 800mhz PIII... that after years and years of running with only 112Meg on a 300mhz PII... yeah, 112Meg... that's the combination of a 64Meg, a 32Meg and a 16Meg stick... OS/2 loves it and
25 Nov 15 18:29, you wrote to Deavmi:
A Pentium with 4GB of RAM could handle it..
a pentium with 512Meg of RAM with a 40Gig drive could easily handle it... i would hazard a guess that even a fast 486 would still be viable depending on the OS, the BBS package and the number of messages and files stored on the system... one certainly doesn't need any GUI c4rp to run a BBS :)
my BBS has only 384Meg of RAM on an 800mhz PIII... that after years and year of running with only 112Meg on a 300mhz PII... yeah, 112Meg... that's the combination of a 64Meg, a 32Meg and a 16Meg stick... OS/2 loves it and 99% o everything done is all done in command line text based tasks ;)
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Re: Setting up my own BBS
By: Tri0n to Deavmi on Wed Nov 25 2015 06:29 pm
A Pentium with 4GB of RAM could handle it..
While I'm running Windows, I have run my Synchronet system quite acceptably a 1.1 GHZ Celeron with 512 MB RAM - for 3-4 years or so. I'd expect the overhead on a Linux box to be less than Windows.
Go for the Pentium with 4GB if you can, but you can go lower if you need to.
:)
What would one need in terms of hardware and software to setup a BBS. I would like to use Trisquel GNU/Linux-libre as the operating system and obviosuly Synchronet as the BBS server.
I have mine running on a CentOS 7 VPS with 1GB RAM and it runs just fine. I would
suggest getting a 2 CPU core if you go that route as it helps with compiling The
directions on the wiki are for Debian, and about the only thing you have to compile
besides sbbs is dosemu for dos doors, but it seems to work well enough. :)
Good luck and if you decide to go with CentOS I'd be glad to help you out! I got
lots of practice. lol!
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What would one need in terms of hardware and software to setup a BBS. I would like to use Trisquel GNU/Linux-libre as the operating system and obviosuly Synchronet as the BBS server.
What is the phone number, telnet address or ssh address of your BBS, if I may ask so kindly.
What would one need in terms of hardware and software to setup a BBS. I would like to use Trisquel GNU/Linux-libre as the operating system and obviosuly Synchronet as the BBS server.
What would one need in terms of hardwar
would like to use Trisquel GNU/Linux-li
obviosuly Synchronet as the BBS server.
You should be okay with really minimal har
want to pre-setup dosemu if you want to su
should be more than enough, if you're self
today's standards should work. If you're
been really happy with the core i3-5010u s
to run a BBS and more.
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And what is all this DOV-Net stuff about. How does one.set it up?
* DOVE-Net
25 Nov 15 18:29, you wrote to Deavmi:
A Pentium with 4GB of RAM could handle it..
a pentium with 512Meg of RAM with a 40Gig drive could easily handle it... i would hazard a guess that even a fast 486 would still be viable depending on the OS, the BBS package and the number of messages and files stored on the system... one certainly doesn't need any GUI c4rp to run a BBS :)
my BBS has only 384Meg of RAM on an 800mhz PIII... that after years and year of running with only 112Meg on a 300mhz PII... yeah, 112Meg... that's the combination of a 64Meg, a 32Meg and a 16Meg stick... OS/2 loves it and 99% o everything done is all done in command line text based tasks ;)
A Pentium with 4GB of RAM could handle it..
a pentium with 512Meg of RAM with a 40Gig drive could easily handle
it... i would hazard a guess that even a fast 486 would still be viable
depending on the OS, the BBS package and the number of messages and
files stored on the system... one certainly doesn't need any GUI c4rp
to run a BBS :)
my BBS has only 384Meg of RAM on an 800mhz PIII... that after years and
year of running with only 112Meg on a 300mhz PII... yeah, 112Meg...
that's the combination of a 64Meg, a 32Meg and a 16Meg stick... OS/2
loves it and 99% o everything done is all done in command line text
based tasks ;)
My BBS is running on a Pentium I, 256 Meg RAM, 20 Meg HD and Windows
98 2nd Edition. It's stable and very fast since the BBS has no real graphics to slow it down. I think it would do just fine with much
less of a computer (it did for years).
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