Thanks for the primer. I'm now working on creating an image based on Raspbian, and currently have a working UUCP implementation there. Once I'm comfortable with it, I will zip it up and have someone try it.

If this "LisaNet" works out, it would be nice to have an easy way to maintain connection details between hosts. I'm currently exploring using Ansible to maintain that. Here's the repo for that: 

https://github.com/arcanebyte/lisapi. 

Users can use a central host (arcanepi) that would theoretically know how to get everywhere, but if that ever went offline no one would be able to reach the other. Here's an old UUCP map that shows just how messy this can get, but provides some redundancy:

http://olduse.net/blog/current_usenet_map/

I'll let ya know when the image is done baking.

James

On Thursday, September 6, 2018 at 10:53:17 AM UTC-4, Ray Arachelian wrote:

Take a look at this, http://pios.sunder.net/gnustep-install.sh

It's meant to be used on a Raspberry Pi that runs Raspbian like so:   
curl -s http://pios.sunder.net/gnustep-install.sh | bash  

It's a couple of years old, so not sure if it works on the current
distro but it should. You might be able to use this as a skeleton to
build a uucp distro setup for Raspbian and generate an OS zip file that
can be fed to Noobs by anyone with a RPi 2 or 3 and a QPB.
(Obviously remove all the apt-get stuff that gets rid of LXDE and
installs GNUstep.)

And thanks for the github link :)


On 09/04/18 15:47, James Denton wrote:
> >> I guess ideally if we could provide a raspbian distro that could be
> installed via Noobs, that would best. I've sort of built something
> similar to this last year to build a GNUstep desktop called pios that
> I haven't completed - I could share the script I used for that to help
> with this project. Let me know if there's interest. 
>
> I tend to do things the hard way, and don't lean enough on tools like
> this. I'm all for it, though. I simply used Ubuntu server since it's
> what I'm used to.