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Hello Daniel!

Monday August 12 2019 13:00, you wrote to me:

 >   Re: Launching new BBS and conducting research
 >   By: Vince Coen to Daniel on Mon Aug 12 2019 05:34 pm

 >> mbse works well, it is still in active development at least in bug
 >> fixes and minor updates as it does work well as been tested over
 >> many years.

 > I still have to create a feature grid and compare mbse with others.
 > Narrowing down my theme, which will lead to the name. And then
 > speciality. I know I want to focus on aviation (i'm a pilot), amateur
 > radio, makers, watch repair.

Likewise - well a commercial pilot any way.

I released my flightlog program (as O/S) for all flight crew a few months back
in SF as flightlogc. As it is written in Cobol you will need to install the
GnuCOBOL compiler which is free to use also on SF.


 > Thanks for all the information, I"m steadily getting more confused
 > over which system to run it on to start.

 > I do have some redesigning to do, starting with launching a security
 > box and consolidating my log management, security, and database
 > functions to it. I have cable management stuff to deal with too. Ohhh
 > joy. Daniel Traechin


Let me try and help you a wee bit :

For me as a long time Linux user having move to it from OS/2 after IBM dropped
it I only use native running software to maximise performance as I have a lot
of server type products also running including apache for web services, ftp,
MySQL, accounting and some others.

The first two are used with mbse as they are integrated with it with only a 
few
changes.

The other criteria is that the software must be available in source form as I
need to verify there is no back doors or other security issues and this did
eliminate some bbs tools such as Mystic which is now closed source.

Also wanted a bbs that was self contained as far as bbs, mailer, echo & file
tossing, systems management etc along with a IBM mainframe point, and that
thinned down a lot of them. Next was is it still actively being supported with
fast-ish turn around of problems and here many fail!

While Mbse is no longer supported by the original programmer it is supported 
by
3 - 4 of us including myself in a small way if bugs are found or extra
facilities are needed (most that do not involve heavy work loads).

All reported issues have been fixed quickly i.e., matter of days on most cases
but with a couple of weeks as no one has reported a critical bug of any kind.

Mbse works on a wide range of Linux and *nix platforms including (at least by
me) Normal Linux on a X64 based CPU, a back up running on a Raspberry Pi 3+ 
and
a 2008 Mac Pro (this is not up normally though) and the Pi runs a rsync 
process
to grab the file space used by mbse on the main system but without the bin
directory along with a few others that would clash with each other.

My system runs via a 1000Va UPS and mostly (when not having house rewired or
decorators in) is up 24/7 and was up well over a year between reboots despite
system updates ( only reboot for a major critical Linux Kernel update or
special system libraries such as libc etc and that only takes 15 - 30
seconds).




Vince

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