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    Top-Rated Free CRM Software

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    RMM Software | Remote Monitoring Platform and Tools

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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: 158 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: 23 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: 11 This Week
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    Mona Font is a Japanese proportional font which allows you to view Japanese text arts correctly.
    Downloads: 36 This Week
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    Tigerpaw One | Business Automation Software for SMBs

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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: 21 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: 20 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: 7 This Week
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    MathJax
    MathJax is a modular javascript framework for including mathematics in web pages. It can take input in various formats, like TeX and MathML, and can produce output in various forms, such as MathML or HTML-with-CSS. Components are loaded as needed.
    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: 30 This Week
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    Recruit and Manage your Workforce

    Evolia makes it easier to hire, schedule and track time worked by frontline in medium and large-sized businesses.

    Evolia is a web and mobile platform that connects enterprises with 1000’s of local shift workers and offers free workforce scheduling and time and attendance solutions. Is your business on Evolia?
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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: 8 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: 5 This Week
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    EasyMOD is a script for phpBB that installs mods automatically on your phpBB installation.
    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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    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: 7 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: 4 This Week
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    Simple Forum Auto Poster
    Simple Forum Auto Poster is a program that automatically posts messages to forums. This program is for people active on multiple forums, but don't want to type and copy/paste the same message multiple times.
    Downloads: 4 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.
    Downloads: 6 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: 5 This Week
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    iBBS is a fully capable bbs program for Linux that was designed with ease of use and configuration in mind. Working as a shell, it provides a secure way to present users with set menu options, while making access to the command line impossible.
    Downloads: 5 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: 4 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: 4 This Week
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    Hungarian translation of phpBB 3.
    Downloads: 7 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: 6 This Week
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    Talkboard Forum
    The Talkboard Forum tries to mix the good ideas from other BBs with its own. It supports everything you can expect from a modern bulletin board and provides a fast and easy interface.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    MagMap is a computer magnetic map program. It was designed for companies that need to keep track of the locations of large equipment inventories throughout a country or region. MagMap can also be used as an information board of any kind.
    Downloads: 5 This Week
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