From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 3 20:50:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f116.law11.hotmail.com [64.4.17.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF18437B71D for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 20:50:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from burnscharlesn@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 20:50:54 -0700 Received: from 24.21.122.151 by lw11fd.law11.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 04 Apr 2001 03:50:54 GMT X-Originating-IP: [24.21.122.151] From: "Charles Burns" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Free web BBS software Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 20:50:54 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Apr 2001 03:50:54.0802 (UTC) FILETIME=[73238320:01C0BCBA] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is there any good free BBS software out there? I have noticed that most messageboards use Infopop's Ultimate Bulletin Board, which seems like a good package but is several thousand dollars. O'Reilly's WebBoard is awful and for some strange reason, available only for Windows (O'Reilly? Windows??) and then there's one done in pure ASP that GameSpy uses, but with Chilisoft's immaturity I wouldn't want to run that. (That and ASP under Windows is flaky and unpredictable for some reason) I was considering starting one up on SourceForge after spending a few months getting good at PHP. If I were to do this, what do the Unix gods here believe would be the best language to do a BBS package in? PHP? Perl? I'd like to stick with one language and would very much not like to use any Java. I would also like to stick with interpreted languages because of the load time of compiled CGIs, other than possibly for the search function which would likely just use PostGreSQL or MySQL rather than internal stuff. (Fast search engines are a pain... At least to me) Thanks ahead of time for input _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message