From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 3 21: 4: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.hub.org (SHW39-29.accesscable.net [24.138.39.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4770037B71F for ; Tue, 3 Apr 2001 21:04:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by mobile.hub.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3443wL84848; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 01:03:59 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: mobile.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 01:03:58 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Charles Burns Cc: Subject: Re: Free web BBS software In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hwo about openacs (www.openacs.org) ... ? On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Charles Burns wrote: > 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 > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message