-=> RUSSELL TIEDT wrote to ANDY ALT <=-

 RT> Hello Andy.

 RT> 05 Sep 04 00:56, you wrote to Maurice Kinal:


 MK>> I have more but the above is first and foremost.

 MK>> Oh yeah!  No stinkin' dosemu!!!  Pure GNU-Linux.

 AA> I don't understand, Maurice. There already are Linux BBS packages that
 AA> run from the Linux console and, to my eyes and understanding, are very
 AA> similar to what you described. I don't really have a wish list. I've
 AA> never thought about it before.

 AA> Synchronet for example, has a daemon option, text displays, messaging.
 AA> Since it can display Ansi, it can look like "the DOS BBS'es of
Yore."
 AA> It's multiuser/multi-node.

 AA> Maybe a BBS that can run thru SSH? I dunno, I'm still new to Linux, my
 AA> friend, and quite ignorant, really. :)

 RT> Hang arund a bit, and you will soon realize Maurices loves, ie. the
 RT> console, getting less to do more (minimalisam), and Slackware. Not
 RT> necessarilly in that order either.

I like the console too, and run Slackware 10. My computer illiterate 
girlfriend actually let me put Slackware on her computer a few months ago; 
she of course only uses KDE and not the console.

Except I wish I could use the mouse more from the console, and that it 
would freeze up for no reason, and I wish I'd get error messages that  
made me feel like it was talking to me like, "agetty has performed an 
illegal operation and will be shut down." or "Linux has encountered a 
problem. We recommend restarted. We apologize for any inconvenience."
 
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