From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 3 20:58:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tao.agoron.com (tao.agoron.com [206.181.233.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7225237B724 for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 20:58:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marius@agoron.com) Received: from quasi (quasi.shredco.com [206.181.233.73]) by tao.agoron.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA09159; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 23:58:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Marius Kirschner" To: "Charles Burns" , Subject: RE: Free web BBS software Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 23:57:08 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Look through the listing written in PHP: http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Scripts_and_Programs/Discussion_Boards/ or for PERL here: http://www.hotscripts.com/Perl/Scripts_and_Programs/Discussion_Boards/ I can't really recommend any at this time as I'm using UBB myself (was less than $300 at the time I purchased it). ---Marius > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Charles Burns > Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 11:51 PM > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Free web BBS software > > > 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message