Re: AI-WX Weather Door Is
By: Accession to Tiny on Wed Oct 22 2025 05:19 pm

Currently my desktop is running Linux Mint. It's been stable, the box runs

Me personally, I have nothing bad to say about Mint. I've booted it up multiple times, and it looks and works great.

I've been running Linux Mint on my secondary PC for about 10 years now (though I replaced the PC with a newer one a few years ago), and I've been pretty happy with Mint. I run Plex Media Server on it and I also run my BBS on that machine - For quite a while, I was still running my BBS in Windows in a VM, but a few years ago I moved my BBS to Linux, running in the host OS now (no VM needed for the BBS anymore).

Nightfox

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Re: Linux
By: Nightfox to Accession on Wed Oct 22 2025 04:46 pm

Currently my desktop is running Linux Mint. It's been stable, the
box runs

Me personally, I have nothing bad to say about Mint. I've booted it
up multiple times, and it looks and works great.

I've been running Linux Mint on my secondary PC for about 10 years now (though I replaced the PC with a newer one a few years ago), and I've been pretty happy with Mint. I run Plex Media Server on it and I also run my BBS on that machine - For quite a while, I was still running my BBS in Windows in a VM, but a few years ago I moved my BBS to Linux, running in the host OS now (no VM needed for the BBS anymore).

I run Windows 11 on my Laptop, But I also run Ubuntu 24.04 on a VPS and Raspian on a Raspberry PI 3, the PI runs my mystic BBS.
I Run outwest.synchro.net (Synchronet BBS) on a HP thin Client PC running windows 7.
What VM were you using for your BBS?. just curious.

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Re: Linux
By: Denn to Nightfox on Wed Oct 22 2025 11:11 pm

What VM were you using for your BBS?. just curious.

I was using VirtualBox.

Nightfox

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Re: Linux
By: Nightfox to Denn on Thu Oct 23 2025 07:14 am

By: Denn to Nightfox on Wed Oct 22 2025 11:11 pm

What VM were you using for your BBS?. just curious.

I was using VirtualBox.
Nightfox

Something I'm fairly new to is Proxmox. I'm running a VM of Windows 10 32 bit to host my Synchronet BBS server under it. It's been up about a month now and so far it seems pretty snappy on an older Dell i5 7th gen Intel with 32G memory. I'm also hosting PiHole on the same Proxmox server. I think I like it better than Virtual Box, performance wise.

Lonewolf
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Re: Linux
By: Nightfox to Denn on Thu Oct 23 2025 07:14:05

What VM were you using for your BBS?. just curious.

This BBS runs native on linux. My older DOS BBS runs in 4 DOSBox-X sessions and one node in VirtualBox (to run some utilities that choke in DB-X, like my fido tosser and league door maintenance).
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Re: Linux
By: Lonewolf to Nightfox on Thu Oct 23 2025 05:59 pm

I was using VirtualBox.

Something I'm fairly new to is Proxmox. I'm running a VM of Windows 10 32 bit to host my Synchronet BBS server under it. It's been up about a month now and so far it seems pretty snappy on an older Dell i5 7th gen Intel with 32G memory. I'm also hosting PiHole on the same Proxmox server. I think I like it better than Virtual Box, performance wise.

I haven't used Proxmox. My BBS is noticeably faster running natively in the host OS compared to running in VirtualBox, and I'm curious now what the performance would be running in Proxmox or another VM.. Though I think an advantage of running in the host OS is not needing to have resources taken on the machine by a VM.

Nightfox

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Re: Linux
By: Dumas Walker to Denn on Thu Oct 23 2025 03:05 pm

This BBS runs native on linux. My older DOS BBS runs in 4 DOSBox-X sessions and one node in VirtualBox (to run some utilities that choke in DB-X, like my fido tosser and league door maintenance).

Dosbox has limitations, I like running old dos programs in a VM with MS-DOS6.2.
But I do use DOS box x sometimes or vdos.

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