-=> STEVE ASHER wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 SA> G'day Wayne..

 WC> Has the one who shall remain nameless given you any heat?

 SA> Heat, possibly - annoyance definitely, backed up with implied
 SA> threats.

 WC> Caused problems for you?

 SA> It's been dealt with.

 WC> Should you ask I'll withdraw from your BBS rather than post the odd
 WC> post to that other echo.

 SA> That other echo is unlinked here, along with his other echoes that
 SA> were in the latest echolist.

Drastic but understood.

 WC> It's in pretty severe decline in any regard with just a few
 WC> opinions of much interest to me anyway.

 WC> Your BBS just doesn't interface for QWK out of the box well with
 WC> Linux.

 SA> If I was really keen, I would investigate setting up a http bbs, but
 SA> probably not worth the trouble, with phpbbs sites replacing distributed
 SA> Fido echoes.

It's been in decline for quite a long time :-(

The internet is 99.9 percent fluff but that's what most 
people appear to want.

 WC> I'd bet a Knoppix release of this same O.S. would work just fine as
 WC> they preconfigure much to the generally accepted standards.

 WC> Slackware Linux leaves a LOT to be custom configured.

 WC> It has the advantage of being able to be optimised to your ultimate
 WC> goals and desires in how it operates but it can introduce stumbling
 WC> blocks.

 SA> I was very impressed with PCLinuxOS - behaved well on my now dead
 SA> machine.

Hey the latest release of Slackware operates quite adaquately on a 1998 IBM.

Linux does get more out of existing hardware than other operating systems,
particularly Mr. Bill Gates. 

And it's free, and open source and you can find most any application for it
you might require.

The only place it seems to fall short is gaming and that I've no need of.

 WC> BTW my ancestry came through Austrailia at one point starting out
 WC> in Scotland and arriving in Autrailia in somewhat the accoustomed
 WC> way back in the day.

 SA> Came as guests on one of his majesty's ships? :)

Uh yes, that would be an affirmative.


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