From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

To: Digital Man
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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To: The Millionaire
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 Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

To: The Millionaire
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 Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

To: The Millionaire
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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To: echicken
It would be interesting to see someone’s direction toward such a venture though.

$ The Millionaire $

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From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

To: The Millionaire
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

... Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.

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To: DaiTengu
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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To: echicken

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 Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

To: DaiTengu

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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To: Mortifis

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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