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  • MongoDB Atlas runs apps anywhere Icon
    MongoDB Atlas runs apps anywhere

    Deploy in 115+ regions with the modern database for every enterprise.

    MongoDB Atlas gives you the freedom to build and run modern applications anywhere—across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. With global availability in over 115 regions, Atlas lets you deploy close to your users, meet compliance needs, and scale with confidence across any geography.
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    Secure User Management, Made Simple | Frontegg

    Get 7,500 MAUs, 50 tenants, and 5 SSOs free – integrated into your app with just a few lines of code.

    Frontegg powers modern businesses with a user management platform that’s fast to deploy and built to scale. Embed SSO, multi-tenancy, and a customer-facing admin portal using robust SDKs and APIs – no complex setup required. Designed for the Product-Led Growth era, it simplifies setup, secures your users, and frees your team to innovate. From startups to enterprises, Frontegg delivers enterprise-grade tools at zero cost to start. Kick off today.
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    SyncTERM

    Cross-platform BBS (ANSI) Terminal

    A cross-platform ANSI-BBS terminal designed to connect to remote BBSs via telnet, rlogin, or SSH. Supports ANSI music and the IBM charset when possible. Will run from a console, under X11 using XLib, or using SDL.
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    Downloads: 286 This Week
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    phpBB

    phpBB

    phpBB is the world's leading open source discussion forum software.

    phpBB is the world's leading Open Source flat style discussion forum software. It includes all the features you expect to find in today's top of the line software.
    Downloads: 25 This Week
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    Synchronet BBS Utilities

    Synchronet BBS Utilities

    Suite of utilities for Linux SBBS Operators

    Makes running a Synchronet BBS on Linux easier. Includes a backup script, management console, startup script, and other useful utilities. Only tested on Ubuntu... Now designed to run as the user "bbsowner" rather than root. No need to use sudo command anymore.
    Downloads: 45 This Week
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    Mona Font is a Japanese proportional font which allows you to view Japanese text arts correctly.
    Downloads: 33 This Week
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  • Our Free Plans just got better! | Auth0 Icon
    Our Free Plans just got better! | Auth0

    With up to 25k MAUs and unlimited Okta connections, our Free Plan lets you focus on what you do best—building great apps.

    You asked, we delivered! Auth0 is excited to expand our Free and Paid plans to include more options so you can focus on building, deploying, and scaling applications without having to worry about your security. Auth0 now, thank yourself later.
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    Yet another Bulletin Board (YaBB)
    YaBB is a FREE Perl forum (bulletin board) system that has rivaled professional message boards for years. YaBB provides chat for visitors where they can post any time and reply to anyone!
    Downloads: 10 This Week
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    Qodem Terminal Emulator
    Qodem is a a terminal emulator that resembles the BBS-era Qmodem. Includes phonebook, scrollback, capture, X/Y/Zmodem, Kermit, ANSI (+ music) / Avatar / VT102 / Linux emulation, Unicode, and keyboard macros. Connects over serial, ssh, telnet, rlogin.
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    Downloads: 24 This Week
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    AJAX Chat - Open Source Web Chat

    Fully customizable web chat created using AJAX.

    MOVED: This project has moved to https://github.com/Frug/AJAX-Chat AJAX Chat is a fully customizable web chat implemented in JavaScript, PHP and MySQL which integrates nicely with common forum systems like phpBB, MyBB, PunBB, SMF and vBulletin. A Flash and Ruby based socket connection can be used to boost performance.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    ACiD View 6 is is a multimedia viewer for Windows. Its the first to support a variety of both textmode and bitmap graphic formats such as ANSI/ASCII, XBIN, GIF, JPEG and PNG. Additional features include a modem-speed simulator, VGA previewing and more!
    Downloads: 10 This Week
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    Multiuser BBS/Internet Server Software for multiple platforms including Windows and Linux (legacy versions maintained for DOS and OS/2). Multithreaded modular C/C++ project that includes Telnet, FTP, and Mail servers and support for popular DOS doorgames.
    Downloads: 18 This Week
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  • The Ultimate Quiz Maker & Engagement Platform Icon
    The Ultimate Quiz Maker & Engagement Platform

    Powering publishers, brands, and sports teams with 30+ interactive content types. Maximize engagement and revenue with Riddle.

    Riddle is an online platform for creating interactive content such as quizzes, surveys, personality tests, prediction games, and leaderboards. Our customers create content on our platform and then embed it on their website. The goal? Increased engagement, lead generation, segmentation, and content monetization - all 100% GDPR compliant.
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    MultiMail Offline Reader
    MultiMail is an offline mail packet reader for Unix and other systems. It currently supports the Blue Wave, QWK, OMEN, OPX and SOUP formats. It has a full screen, color user interface, built with the curses library.
    Downloads: 10 This Week
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    The full source code release of the Maximus bulletin board software and related projects (including Squish and other utilities).
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    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    MBSE BBS for Linux & Unix

    MBSE BBS is a full FTN-capable ANSI BBS and mailer package.

    MBSE BBS is a fully FTN-capable ANSI BBS package including a mailer (ifcico clone), BinkD daemon, mail tosser, TIC processor, filefind, and other utilities allowing access via modem and the Internet using telnet, ssh, http and ftp. Support is offered through the Fidonet MBSE echo and the Micronet MIN_BBS echo.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    TundraDraw is a cross-platform ANSI drawing program written with C++, using the Qt Toolkit. Thus, it runs natively on both X environments and Windows. It features network connectivity to allow artists to draw together over the Internet.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Beehive Forum
    PHP/MySQL Discussion Forum with frames-based layout, reply-to-user, e-mail notification, HTML-posting, signatures, friends & killfiles, user promotion/demotion and full admin tools.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Not into manually editing all of those phpBB files? Worried about damaging your database by adding MODs? Fully Modded phpBB2 is the worlds leading Open Source flat style modified phpbb discussion board that has plenty of useful and fun mods pre-installed
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    phpBB Spain - phpBB España

    phpBB Spain - phpBB España

    Soporte phpBB Oficial España

    Spanish Support site for forums phpBB, MODs, templates, icons, and others downloads. Translation phpBB, Icy Phoenix and others CMS based in phpBB.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    iTranslate
    iTranslate is a translator that translates from English to either French, German or Spanish or it can be used to translate from either French, German or Spanish to English. It is easy to use, simple interface and very quick translation. Version 0.1
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    Qsampler

    Qsampler

    A LinuxSampler Qt GUI Interface

    Qsampler is a linuxsampler GUI front-end application written in C++ around the Qt4 toolkit using Qt Designer. For the moment it just wraps the client interface of LinuxSampler Control Protocol (LSCP) (http://www.linuxsampler.org).
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    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    QTerm is a BBS client in Linux.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    FBBTelnet

    Consola telnet vía web para FBB BBS

    Características Utilización simple (al menos para el cliente). Multiplataforma (aplicación web). Interfaz gráfica escalable adaptable a diferentes formatos / resoluciones. Historial de comandos. Aceleradores: Mensajes nuevos, propios, lectura, estado del bbs, etc. Texto enriquecido. Reconocimiento de palabras clave (url's, correos electrónicos, números de mensaje, licencias, etc). Descarga / Visualización directa de YAPP / 7+ (a implementar).
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    ReloadCMS is a free CMS written on PHP and based on flat files. It does not need any DB installed(!) and realise all abilities of high-level CMS like modularity, templates, users management, advanced rights system and package of main modules.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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    Eclipse based editor for phpBB MOD files
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    mvnForum is a open source, powerful, easy to use/setup bulletin board (forum) built on the J2EE technology(Jsp/Servlet) and compatible with any Servlet Container which supports Jsp 1.2 and Servlet 2.3. The official home page is www.mvnForum.com
    Downloads: 1 This Week
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    FMail

    The Fast Echomail Processor/tosser, for Fidonet Technology Networks

    FMail is an opensource echo mail processor/tosser for Hudson and JAM message bases, released under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3. Also included is a message base maintenance utility with a lot of special features. The Windows version can handle more areas than the old DOS version and is optimized for use with 32 & 64-bit versions of MS Windows. But there is also a preliminary Linux version available.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    PCMan is an easy-to-use telnet client mainly targets BBS users formerly running under MS Windows. PCMan X is a newly developed, open-source and cross-platform version written with wxWidgets, supporting X Window, MS Windows, and Mac OS X.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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