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** Note: this file is depreciated, refer to CHANGES.*
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URONode was spawned off of the original linuxnode by Tomi Manninen OH2BNS
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Before URONode was FlexNode by Roy PE1RJA, and then by Stefano Noferi IZ5AWZ
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who called it AWZNode. I took over the code willingly and on my own mainly
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as a project I could do under C program coding in April 2003 after it
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appeared that AWZNode was no longer being developed.
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My first goal was to make it appear and act more like TheNet X1J and spent
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most of my time configuring the node to behave as such which I felt I did
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quite successfully. While doing that I thought I'd try to add in email
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features by using the old PMS system written by Alan Cox, who has a lot
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of code in the main linux kernel for it's IP stack (most of which is taken
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directly out of KA9Q nos). While I was successful in doing that, Morgan
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SM6TKY reported that the code was old and exploitable... unfortunately I had
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a period where I couldn't devote the time into getting it repaired quickly
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and URONode sat and suffered with a note explaining that certain features
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should not be used or enabled. As a quick fix, I simply commented out the
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found exploits and did some more cosmetics to the code and released a patch.
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Still with users wanting EMAIL as a feature to the software, this inspired me
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to pick up with the dropped axMail code and bring that more up to date. axMail
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was originally started by Heikki Hannikainen, and then mailbox routines were
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added by Marius Petrescu, however system configs were lacking. I took the
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code and added in the routines which are in there now so that new users
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are properly created within the basic linux filesystem schema, and passwords
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can be created (optional) so that a web front-end such as NeoMail can be
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used in conjunction with axMail giving users the choice of the web or RF
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packet to do their SMTP based EMAIL with. It was and always will be an optional
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add-on module for URONode, and other flavors of *node for linux.
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These two packages together, along with F6FBB make for one heck of a feature
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packed system a sysop can piece together on one server. Because of such,
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URONode has become very popular in the NorthEast USA and in Central East
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Florida within the EastNet FlexNet network and with the Florida MARS
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networks. With this, I've taken the look and feel of URONode to try and
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match that of a FlexNet interface.
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The latest version of URONode under-went many face lifts! The node not only
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auto-senses the incoming connection but delivers an interface which clones
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that of the type of system they're connecting in from. A user connecting
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in via IP will actually get a prompt that looks and acts similar to a
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Unix bash prompt with custom aliased commands!.. and to top that all off
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I've added an ansi schema to the IP interface!!
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URONode is used world-wide in Europe, Africa, Asia, and in North America.
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A web bbs is available at https://www.n1uro.net/forum where release notes
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for URONode are posted. If the functionality of URONode isn't enough to
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get interest in packet growing, the stability of URONode should!
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