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Running a BBS on a new server?

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First post, by thePalindrome

Posted on 2014-11-20, 03:51

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I wanted to run a BBS on a (hopefully Centos 6/7) server, but I'm not quite sure what kind of BBS software to use. I'm not quite old enough to really feel nostalgic about a BBS, but I still feel it'd be really cool to set one up...

I was thinking of using mysticBBS, does anyone have any suggestions?

Reply 1 of 2, by sliderider

Posted on 2014-11-20, 05:34

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Wildcat was probably the most popular. You can still find boxed copies on ebay once in a while, but be prepared to pay.

Reply 2 of 2, by konc

Posted on 2014-11-20, 08:05

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Since you're not hardcore into reviving something specific (as I did for example here http://ots.site50.net/ bringing back online my own old bbs)
I believe you'd better look at software that supports natively a telnet server. This will save you the trouble of dealing with a FOSSIL driver as a proxy. If I remember correctly, Mystic BBS that you' re considering does this, has a linux version and its development is still active so I'd say it's a good choice.

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