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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: 252 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: 31 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: 42 This Week
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    Mona Font is a Japanese proportional font which allows you to view Japanese text arts correctly.
    Downloads: 49 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: 21 This Week
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    Kusaba X
    Kusaba X is a continuation of the Kusaba imageboard software, which Trevor has quit supporting. While other Kusaba derivatives are adding more bloat than functionality, Kusaba X is determined on adding functionality first. http://kusabax.cultnet.net
    Downloads: 11 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: 3 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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    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.
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    Downloads: 9 This Week
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    Apache Answer

    Apache Answer

    Free and open source Q&A platform software for all the teams.

    Apache Answer is an open-source software project under incubation at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). It empowers you to build a robust question-and-answer (Q&A) platform to thrive your community at ease. Apache Answer is capable for but not limited to: Community Forum: Open discussions and knowledge sharing within your online community. Help Center: Provide a central location for users to find answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) and troubleshoot issues related to your product or service. Knowledge Base: Create a searchable repository of valuable information and best practices for your team or organization. Discover more by yourself.
    Downloads: 16 This Week
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    PHPX is a web portal system, blog, Content Management System (CMS), forums, and more. All files are currently hosted at http://www.phpx.org/project.php
    Downloads: 14 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: 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: 2 This Week
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    Friki is a Java Wiki. It is simple to deploy (just drop in to any modern servlet container), small and very easy to customise after deployment. Supports the classic wiki markup and a few common extensions.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    E-Blah is a fast, reliable, and secure bulletin board system. E-Blah has a facet of features which include: private messaging, passworded and group board security, extensive logging, polls and sticky threads, mod_rewrite support, spam removal, et cetera.
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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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: 1 This Week
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    OpenID authentication for phpBB3
    Downloads: 2 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: 3 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: 3 This Week
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    GNU/Linux-compatible version of the now unavailable Red Light Variety Alpha software, a Hotline protocol client and server with Japanese language support. Future versions aim at more internationalization and better sharing functions.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Message board originally derived from ASP-DEv Support Forums. These forums are completely database driven and fully customizable. Snitz Forums 2000 can work for your organization to boost customer support and provide a medium of communications for anyone
    Downloads: 3 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: 3 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: 2 This Week
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    Contiki-BBS

    Contiki BBS is a tiny, little and text based bulletin board system

    Contiki BBS is a tiny, little and text based bulletin board system (BBS) server for the Commodore 64 homecomputer and a compatible ethernet cartridge (e.g. RRnet, 64NIC+). It will also run in a VICE emulator with ethernet support enabled. The BBS itself can be accessed through a standard telnet connection. Despite a floppy disk drive and the ethernet cartridge no further addon hardware is required (for emulation use VICE with ethernet support).
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    shinGETsu

    shinGETsu is a P2P(peer-to-peer) anonymous BBS

    Now shinGETsu is developed on GitHub. Please come on https://github.com/shingetsu
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    Downloads: 4 This Week
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