Subj : Re: LinuxNet
To : Andrew Leary
From : Dan Clough
Date : Mon Feb 24 2025 08:12 am
-=> Andrew Leary wrote to Dan Clough <=-
DC> > Hello Andrew,
DC> >
DC> > Can you advise on the current state of LinuxNet? Is it still a viable
DC> > network these days? Thanks.
AL> LinuxNet is still operating, barely. I can't get a response from Chad
AL> most of the time, although his system is still running and accepting
AL> mail. I am still producing the distributed LinuxNet nodelists,
AL> although I have no confirmation that they are actually making it out to
AL> Chad's downlinks.
Okay, so not much has changed since I left.
AL> All in all, I'm starting to think that there's not much reason to
AL> continue it. Perhaps the FidoNet LINUX echo would be a more realistic
AL> place to discuss anything related to Linux.
Agreed. In fact I'd replace "not much" with "no" in your sentence
above. I've always been a bit surprised with how poorly that network
did, and how little traffic there is in the Linux echo. Quite a few
folks are using Linux these days but nobody seems real interested in
chatting about it. Not what I would expect.
