From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joop Stakenborg Subject: Re: FBB... Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 11:23:45 +0100 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20021225112345.35a8f3cf.pa3aba@debian.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: mvw@mvw.net Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 00:13:14 -0500 (EST) mvw@mvw.net wrote: > OK, pity, but FBB is deleted. I have never seen a worse install in my > life, of any software! Apart from the edits needed before it will even > compile, there are no instructions (the README just says to 'make' and > enjoy), and the scripts included give nothing but fatal errors. Plus the > English is bad, but that is not the author's fault, and the licensing is > odd (not GPL: it asks not to make changes).. > I think you are wrong in several ways. The times I have set up fbb have been easy. Included is a scipt which you run, which creates all the needed directories and creates a default setup. I have rarely encountered a similar piece of complex software which is so easy to set up. The english is certainly not bad and the licensing has been GPL for over a year now. > So I am glad it works for some of you, but for me this is such low > standard software that I have deleted it. > Low standard software? Can you explain to me why it is used all over the world by almost every bbs? > Any ideas for other systems like this, then? > Yeah, build your own if you can't find what you want. > Michael > > > Joop