Maurice! Hello. Prism was down for a long time but I tried logging in today and it worked! Nice to have my usual
Fido Gateway available.


I was looking around to see the current state of ttylinux and see it's not really active anymore, and found that even some of the downloads were no longer available.

I had an idea that I thought might be good, and after find a couple isos, I pushed them to my docker account. I felt like people may still be interested in the future, at least for archiving/historical purposes. What do you think?

https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/andy5995/ttylinux/general

Anyway, how have you been? Me and a buddy have been working on doing a Linux From Scratch installation. I had done it about a decade ago, but he's never, so I thought it would be fun to do with him. We've booted into it and now
just have to get his wifi working. Fun!

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Anyway, how have you been? Me and a buddy have been working on doing a Linux From Scratch installation. I had done it about a decade ago, but he's never, so I thought it would be fun to do with him. We've booted into it and now just have to get his wifi working. Fun!

Sounds like you need network manager & friends.

I just did this myself on my desktop, it just needed dhcpcd so it was fairly simple. Network manager might be more involved, I'll have to go down that road too when I get to my laptop.

Have fun!

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Hey Andrew!

Prism was down for a long time but I tried logging in today and
it worked!

Fantastic news. I'll give it a try later. Thanks for the heads up.

I was looking around to see the current state of ttylinux and see
it's not really active anymore

I haven't checked it out for awhile but last time I did it looked to be heading in that direction. I was toying with the idea of doing something similar for a bbs, perhaps a virtual one?

I felt like people may still be interested in the future, at
least for archiving/historical purposes. What do you think?

Excellent idea. I would probably check that out.

Life is good,
Maurice

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Alan Ianson wrote to Andrew Alt <=-

Anyway, how have you been? Me and a buddy have been working on doing a Linux From Scratch installation. I had done it about a decade ago, but he's never, so I thought it would be fun to do with him. We've booted into it and now just have to get his wifi working. Fun!

Sounds like you need network manager & friends.

We got it working today with wpa_supplicant and dhclient! :)


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Maurice Kinal wrote to Andrew Alt <=-

I haven't checked it out for awhile but last time I did it looked to be heading in that direction. I was toying with the idea of doing
something similar for a bbs, perhaps a virtual one?

I participated in a recent discussion on Reddit. Someone asked about running Synchronet BBS in a docker container.

Another person said ze got Mystic BBS running in a docker with dosemu.

Also someone brought up making an appimage build of synch bbs. ;)

https://www.reddit.com/r/bbs/comments/zwjyas/dockerized/


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Sounds like you need network manager & friends.

We got it working today with wpa_supplicant and dhclient! :)

Good stuff. LFS is (one of) my favorite things these days.

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Hey Andrew!

Someone asked about running Synchronet BBS in a docker container.

I was thinking more along the line of a standard ansi-type bbs except in my case it would serve up the 'linux' terminal which in my case also happens to have framebuffer graphics available to it. That way it potentially could serve up pdf and the such. I think a stock ttylinux could easily handle something like this although I'd have to work out the graphical output ... also utf-8 will require a bit of jiggery-pokery.

Life is good,
Maurice

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Maurice Kinal wrote to Andrew Alt <=-

Hey Andrew!

Someone asked about running Synchronet BBS in a docker container.

I was thinking more along the line of a standard ansi-type bbs except
in my case it would serve up the 'linux' terminal which in my case also happens to have framebuffer graphics available to it. That way it potentially could serve up pdf and the such. I think a stock ttylinux could easily handle something like this although I'd have to work out
the graphical output ... also utf-8 will require a bit of
jiggery-pokery.

Sounds interesting. Last week I started updating ttylinux (https://github.com/andy5995/ttylinux/pull/1/files) but it's doubtful I'll continue with it on my own.


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Hey Andrew!

Last week I started updating ttylinux ... but it's doubtful I'll
continue with it on my own.

It is far too much of a commitment for this old man. These days I am sticking to playing and helping out where I can. As for lfs, I doubt I could quit at this stage of the game. I got hooked around the same time I first started playing with ttylinux. For me they almost became the same thing.

Life is good,
Maurice

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Maurice Kinal wrote to Andrew Alt <=-

Hey Andrew!

Last week I started updating ttylinux ... but it's doubtful I'll
continue with it on my own.

It is far too much of a commitment for this old man. These days I am sticking to playing and helping out where I can. As for lfs, I doubt I could quit at this stage of the game. I got hooked around the same
time I first started playing with ttylinux. For me they almost became
the same thing.

It's good to know where you're at. :)


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Hey Andrew!

It's good to know where you're at. :)

I suppose it would be. :-/

Life is good,
Maurice

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