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YT7MPB > LINUX 21.09.20 18:31l 58 Lines 2312 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 20690_YT7MPB
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Subj: Re: YT7MPB > Re: Keep old BBS hardware?
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Sent: 200920/1726Z @:YT7MPB.#NSD.SRB.EU #:20690 [Novi Sad] FBB7.0.9 $:20690_YT7
From: YT7MPB@YT7MPB.#NSD.SRB.EU
To : LINUX@WW
On 9/7/20 2:42 PM, N1URO wrote:
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> From: N1URO@VE2PKT.#QBC.QC.CAN.NOAM
> To : LINUX@WW
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> Misko / Marco;
>
> Have you looked into Devuan? It's Debian/Ubuntu without the overhead of
> systemd. They still make a distro for the i386 based systems as well. It
> may be a little faster than those distros that use systemd and it does
> come with Mate as a desktop however you can add Trinity Desktop (maintained
> by a ham here in Wisconsin) which is a full rewrite/modernized KDE3.
>
> Their first release was code named Jessie since it was based directly off of
> the Debian Jessie release but their next version up is called Ascii and it's
> based on Debian 9 (stretch) and is still active and being maintained. The
> current version as of this writing is Beowulf which is based on Debian 10
> (Buster).
>
> The website is https://www.devuan.org and it's what we base the main OS for
> EastNet with. It handles packet server applications (LinFBB, URONode, axMail-
> Fax, etc) just fine even on older hardware. If you have native Debian installed
> migrating to Devuan should be a cakewalk. I was on Debian Wheezy and migrated up
> to Devuan Jessie and now Ascii.
>
> You should be able to stay on kernel 3.x but if you must upgrade to a 4.x
> series kernel there's ax25 stack patches available by Marius YO2LOJ on his
> website. Don't forget about the kernel ax25 stack bug in the ax25.ko
> module.
>
> 73
>
Brian, et al.
Until this evening I was with Debian 8 and FBB 7.0.8-beta. I just
compiled FBB 7.0.9 on this old machine, and was pleasantly surprised
that compilation process went smoothly. (Only ./configure suggested me
to add some few libraries if I wanted to compile X stuff of FBB too, so
I did and all passed thru without visible errors.)
Right now I test MATE GUI and Thunderbird mailer to write this bull. As
said yesterday, GUI is disabled at boot, so that FBB starts in CLI mode
(not yet as within boot process until fully checked). Then I can use
either xfbbC in CLI, or start GUI and from there Thunderbird or else.
This is sent from within Thunderbird as a bulletin in newsgroup LINUX@WW
Hope it will reach you all. Now to write a personal mail too ...
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73 de Misko YT7MPB@YT7MPB.#NSD.SRB.EU
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