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Browse free open source BBS software and projects for Linux and BSD below. Use the toggles on the left to filter open source BBS software by OS, license, language, programming language, and project status.
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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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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. -
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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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Yet another Bulletin Board (YaBB)
Free forum software
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! -
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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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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. -
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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
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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. -
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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.
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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
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This project includes tools for doing fidonet with SQL as storage. It includes a api for writing messages into a MYSQL db, a fidonet packet tosser, a file ticker, a bbs, a fidonet mailer, and mutch more!
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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.
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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. -
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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.
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This is the Standard French translation project for phpBB3. We are doing translations of the actual software itself (language files, packages and imagesets).
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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.
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my little forum is on GitHub now: https://github.com/ilosuna/mylittleforum
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A multiplayer RPG that connects as a psuedo server to an IRCD. Built in the tradition of old BBS Door games such as LORD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Red_Dragon). Forest fights add experience and gold needed to best your master (gain level
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This is the place the Attachment Mod is at home. The Attachment Mod is an addition to phpBB Forums (not ported phpBB Packages), allowing to attach files to posts with a vast of options for displaying/adding files. The feature list will reveal most of it.
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Cheepware
Open source BBS doors and utilities
Cheepware is a line of BBS doors and utilities developed by Sean Dennis that are open source under the MIT License for DOS, Win32, OS/2, and Linux,.