• Source Code

    From The Millionaire@VERT to Digital Man on Monday, August 24, 2020 20:20:28
    Since the source code is open to anyone, will there be ppl out there that will be making their own distributions or flavours of Synchronet like they do with Linux?

    $ The Millionaire $

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  • From echicken@VERT/ECBBS to The Millionaire on Monday, August 24, 2020 23:51:42
    Re: Source Code
    By: The Millionaire to Digital Man on Mon Aug 24 2020 20:20:28

    Since the source code is open to anyone, will there be ppl out there that will
    be making their own distributions or flavours of Synchronet like they do with
    Linux?

    They *could*, but whether they *will* is not really a question he can answer.

    Synchronet has been open for a long time, and nothing much like that has happened yet. Why now? There have been forks and derivative works, but nothing that really went anywhere interesting.

    I'm not sure what a "distribution" would look like, apart from being a rollup of some person's preferred customizations. What do you mean?

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  • From Tracker1@VERT/TRN to The Millionaire on Monday, August 24, 2020 21:15:18
    On 8/24/2020 8:20 PM, The Millionaire wrote:
    Since the source code is open to anyone, will there be ppl out there that will
    be making their own distributions or flavours of Synchronet like they do with Linux?

    It's been "open to anyone" for over two decades...

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  • From paulie420@VERT/BEERS20 to The Millionaire on Monday, August 24, 2020 22:30:00
    On 24 Aug 2020, The Millionaire said the following...

    Since the source code is open to anyone, will there be ppl out there
    that will be making their own distributions or flavours of Synchronet
    like they do with Linux?

    $ The Millionaire $

    no



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  • From The Millionaire@VERT to echicken on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 05:15:56
    It would be interesting to see someone's direction toward such a venture though.

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  • From DaiTengu@VERT/ENSEMBLE to The Millionaire on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 09:23:34
    Re: Source Code
    By: The Millionaire to echicken on Tue Aug 25 2020 05:15 am

    It would be interesting to see someone's direction toward such a venture though.

    There are other BBS packages out there, Those would be examples of someone else's direction.

    Mystic, MBSE, Enigma, Citadel (although this evolved more to "groupware" now), WWIV.. Magica was actively developed up until a couple weeks ago when the guy took his page down. (although he apparently created a new QWK reader called "Titan")

    Linux is an operating system, it makes sense that there's distributions for that. Synchronet is a service, or a suite of services. repackaging something like that under a different name would just be a dick move.

    DaiTengu

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  • From echicken@VERT/ECBBS to DaiTengu on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 10:57:51
    Re: Source Code
    By: DaiTengu to The Millionaire on Tue Aug 25 2020 09:23:34

    Linux is an operating system, it makes sense that there's distributions for that. Synchronet is a

    And a lot of the things that differentiate one Linux distro from another aren't concepts that easily map over to a BBS package.

    A distro here would probably just be somebody's idea of a good default configuration, possibly with some services removed or disabled, maybe with ... text.dat altered and some different "graphics"?

    I can only think of one crazy thing I might do that's remotely similar to this, but it'd be a huge pain and I wouldn't want to be its sole maintainer.

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  • From Mortifis@VERT/EPHRAM to echicken on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 16:00:53
    Re: Source Code
    By: DaiTengu to The Millionaire on Tue Aug 25 2020 09:23:34

    Linux is an operating system, it makes sense that there's distributions for that. Synchronet is a

    A distro here would probably just be somebody's idea of a good default configuration, possibly with some services removed or disabled, maybe with ... text.dat altered and some different "graphics"?

    text.dat LMBO :)

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  • From Mortifis@VERT/EPHRAM to DaiTengu on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 16:06:50
    Re: Source Code
    By: The Millionaire to echicken on Tue Aug 25 2020 05:15 am

    It would be interesting to see someone's direction toward such a venture though.

    There are other BBS packages out there, Those would be examples of someone else's direction.

    Mystic, MBSE, Enigma, Citadel (although this evolved more to "groupware" now), WWIV.. Magica

    exactly, in fact, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronet Synchronet BBS was such an endeavour :)

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  • From The Millionaire@VERT to Mortifis on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 17:33:39
    exactly, in fact, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronet Synchronet BBS was such an endeavour :)

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    Wow DM is famous! Got a whole web page written about him.

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