Open Source BBS Software

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.

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.

Mona Font is a Japanese proportional font which allows you to view Japanese text arts correctly.

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).

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.

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.

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!

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.

Phorum is a web based discussion software written in PHP. Phorum utilizes a database to manage its messages. It focuses on a generic but customizable user interface and high quality administration functionality. Attention: Use phorum.org !!!

YaBB SE is a PHP/MySQL port of the popular forum software YaBB. The team has rebranded itself under the name Simple Machines and continues to strive to release the best free forum software out there. See www.simplemachines.org

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.

JGBBS is a tree-style online forum system designed for small to medium sized communities, we manage to keep it neat and simple, yet integrated with many useful features.

php Net is a light-weight flexible forum based website software package that uses object-oriented programming and the MySQL database. It's purpose is to act as a fast (and free) alternative to other forum packages which are noticably slow.

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!

QTerm is a BBS client in Linux.

FreeDoor is a 32-bit BBS Door Development Kit for Windows and OS/2. All up-to-date information and future releases are available from http://www.elysoft.net/

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.

A module that allows users to log in to a phpBB board using existing accounts such as Windows Live, Facebook and OpenID.

ImpressCMS is a community developed Content Management System, developed in PHP and mySQL. With this tool, maintaining the content of a website becomes as easy as writing a word document! !! We moved to Assembla !! https://www.assembla.com/spaces/impresscms Our German community with support: http://www.impresscms.de/modules/forum

MacphpBBMOD: House all the phpBB modifications developed and written by Mac (phpBB username: ycl6)

OpenBB - GPL is an Open Source messageboard written in PHP utilizing a mySQL backend. Support for other scripting languages and databases will be achieved through the Open Source Initiative. OpenBB - GPL is based on OpenBB created by Iansoft.

ThWboard is a free bulletin board system providing all major bb features. The board is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database to store posts, users, etc. ThWboard is being used on some well visited pages and is fairly stable.

The aim of this project is to produce a lightweight but reasonably secure PHP and MySQL Forum that can be easily installed to compatible web servers, and will be easily customisable for the end user as well as administrators.

Light and complete forum including the basic functionalities. Possible addition of functions. Others packs will be available while including some more.

FUNterm is a serial port terminal program for Windows. It offers basic serial connection. Because FUNterm is written using basic Win32 calls, with no high-level libraries, it works under Linux using Wine. The serial driver can be used separately.