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[ParanoidDelusions]

I ran Citadel UX on a Sparcstation 5. I was able to get it installed - but managing it was a tall order. Eventually it filled my /var drive and caused a kernel panic and I got it fixed - but it was just too much work for a BBS I was running at home. 

It has become much more manageable. But Linux has become much easier to manage, too. 

The migration tools were NOT completely broken. But - you had to get everything going just right... it was a very analog process of when you were kicking it off and exactly how... lots of things had to be in just the right shape to get it to run - was my impression. 

 

Sat Apr 03 2021 10:55:30 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

Ok good. That means the migration tools weren't *completely* broken. We've come a long way from the days when installing a multiuser Citadel meant compiling the sources yourself and carefully putting everything into place. 30 years ago the objective was to make the administration experience as "unix like" as possible. Since then there has been quite a change in what it means to be a system operator. I have to believe that it it weren't for the existential crisis in 1997 and then the groupware idea in 1998, we'd still be doing things the "old way" (or perhaps the project would have been abandoned by now).

Easy Install opened up a whole new tier of system operators who otherwise wouldn't have been able to get the software installed. AppImage really brings that to the extreme of "I don't want to learn any of this, I just want to run the software."