Subj : Installing 32
To : Richard Webb
From : Minh Van Le
Date : Sat May 24 2008 08:02 pm
Hello Richard !
On 22-May'08 23:33, Richard Webb wrote to Minh Van Le:
MVL> Man you mean you haven't hooked up NetFOSS or Netserial -
MVL> what have you been DOING.
RW> Nope, not on a dial-up internet connection on one line.
It still would have worked. Heh.
RW> VOlunteers is more the right word, I object to the "hobby"
RW> designation myself. SHall we just say for volunteer
RW> emergency communicators <g>.
That would be more sensible.
RW> I"ll give it some study then, see what happens, but looks
RW> like i"ll be running the lnux executables ,g>.
The problem with the Linux version of Maximus is that it's more flakey, less
tested and unsupported.
RW> True enough, but staying with plain text for most displays,
RW> it's about the info, and it's about being able to connect
RW> to it with just about anything. IF all you've got is an old
RW> 1200 baud modem it has a landline. No slow to load
RW> graphics, no hassles with what plug-ins your browser has.
You don't need plugins for HTML.
There's nothing a BBS can't display that can't be done with HTML.
In an emergency I personally would prefer point'n'click interfaces when
browsing for information instead of telnet.
Up to you.
RW> From your discussion above it sounds like the linux
RW> executable is my way to go here. oR running the dos
RW> executable on the 98 machine.
To my knowledge only Netmodem virtual modem will work under Win9x.
RW> I think option 3 sounds like the way to go here <g>. Have
RW> one linux box anyway that will be networked but have other
RW> plans for it.
