Welcome to the official FAQ file for URONode. The purpose of this file is to help explain better about URONode and what the various features were designed for. Since this file will be maintained via URONode Sysop reports, I'll consider this file a constant 'work in progress' type file. When using URONode or really any other linux node flavor, keep in mind that the actual node program itself is only a front-end for the users to do various functions your linux server may have to provide. Node really doesn't do any sort of control features whatsoever, it merely acts as a sort of proxy to your linux daemons. Those features are toggled on/off at compile time by the operator of the node. I've taken time to rework the configure script to give the node ops more flexibility in what they wish to service their end users with. Nothing about URONode was ever designed as a 'replacement' for any existing services such as email and convers. I'm not even going to suggest one chooses to run URONode as a replacement for LinuxNode by Tomi, AWZNode, or even FlexNode. The goals I set when starting this project were moreso to custom fit my unique setup and its something I can share with the amateur community at the same time. URONode is NOT: A replacement for *NOS A replacement for Email A replacement for PBBS A replacement for convers A FlexNet router URONode IS: A user front-end with some additional features to help compliment those existing features an end user may need but for whatever reason doesn't have access to at the moment, while allowing links to various entities such as AX.25 links, Net/Rom routing, FlexNet destinations, general and amprnet TCP/IP services.