Free xboard forum software for linux

miniBB is a flat, linear, highly customizable BB. It features MySQL, PostgreSQL and MSSQL.
Want to make your own discussion board? miniBB ( = mini bulletin board) is a free forum software, original PHP message board script, you can build online community on. Security, speed and stability - three Ss of our conferencing software concepts.
Based on original technology, miniBB provides everything to make your web discussions fast, simple and attractive for visitors. First of all, its a content- and support-oriented board.
One more pecularity, which makes miniBB the best around, is the advantage of the addons architecture. Install required plugins only: dont get annoyed with the features you wont use, build custom forum solution, unique from all the rest!
miniBB is based on PHP and SQL. They are two "whales" of todays Internet technology, and we could call miniBB the third one. Minimal PHP knowledge is required for configuration.
Almost every hosting plan includes PHP and mySQL installed, required for running a message board based on miniBB. Start your forum with minimum of traffic, and grow up to the biggest online conference in your area.
Main features:
- Complete working with PHPs register_globals set to OFF or ON.
- Complete working with PHPs error_reporting set to ANY level (were trying to develop our softwares output as extra clear, even without Notices).
- Color skins, language packs, easy and universal "hand-made" HTML-templates, detailed and complete CSS stylesheet - all of the above allows you to quickly and easily change the look of your miniBB.
- Can be included from your own PHP script.
- Can be united with your previous users database.
- Ability to built-in miniBB into your own site, using your own PHPs header and footer.
- Ability to use Apaches mod_rewrite URL handling for better compatibility with search engines like Google.
- Interface language customization by users.
- Easy and customizable search function, with options to search by username, post text and/or topic title within a selected forum only or through all forums.
- Customizable date (PHP-like) format.
- Basic BB codes (HTML replacements), which allow you to make your posts really good-looking. There is also an ability to turn on/off BBCode in posts.
- Both anonymous and registered users can post messages in any forum by default, or you can make all forums only for registered users, changing one option. Registered users also can edit their messages.
- Private, archive (read-only), post-only and registered-users-only forums.
- Registered users can be notified via email, when their post or topic is replied, even if they are not authors of the topic. They can also unsubscribe anytime.
- Special rankings and titles for registered users.
- Moderators feature.
- Advanced statistics for users and forums.
- Powerful encrypted cookie or, optionally, session-logging and update system for every user.
- Poster IP tracking, which can be accessed by administrator or moderator.
- "Sticky" topics.
- Expiration of message editing.
- Switchable simple one-step and two-step email-registration.
- Banning users by their IPs or IDs, optionally deactivating users.
- Setting time difference, if servers time zone is different from yours.
- Basic spam protection.
- Powerful admin panel and tools.
- Ability to protect all forums by a single password

XBoard project is a X and Windows graphical chessboard.
XBoard is a graphical chessboard for X that can serve as a user interface for GNU Chess, Crafty, other chess engines, and the Internet Chess Servers.
XBoard can also be used by itself to read and write game files in PGN (portable game notation). WinBoard is a port of XBoard to Microsoft Win32.
You can build xboard on most systems with the following commands.
./configure
make
Enhancements:
- Version 4.2.7 corrects about two dozen bugs in the 4.2.6 release.
- In addition, WinBoard 4.2.7 comes bundled with GNU Chess 5.07 instead of the old 5.02+ version.
- The XBoard and WinBoard source code trees have been merged, so the xboard download now contains the complete source for both.

Revo Forum aims to be one of the most powerful forum systems available. Revo Forum aims to be both powerful and easy to install and use.
Revo is not a clone of any forum. It combines the features found in other forum systems into a unique package. Site creators can use or modify a predefined theme or create their own with the easy templating system.
Using a new theme is as easy as uploading a single archive and running the Web-based installer.
Enhancements:
- miscellaneous optimisations and fixes.
- [+] RSS 1.0 and 2.0 module
- [+] advertising module (supports ANY advertising program, including Google AdSense, Y! Ads, Clicksor and more).
- [+] e-mail obfuscation (anti spamming)
- [+] themes and files editor
- [+] user can choose to enable or disable some modules (invitations, e-mail digests).
- [+] URL rewrite (with mod_rewrite)
- [+] mathematical function generator
- [+] multi-page support
- [+] new downloadable module : Weathercast
- [+] meta tags optimisations
- [+] WYSIWYG editor integrated
- [+] better RSS feed generation
- [+] OPML feed generation

KBoard Forum is a PHP/MySQL forum that is designed to be lightweight and efficient but as fully featured as possible. It can be deployed with minimal configuration and there are easy-to-follow instructions included as code comments.
If youve ever struggled with getting other forum tools to run on your server, then KBoard may be just what youve been looking for.
Enhancements:
- New feature: Subsections. All sections can now be subdivided into subsections into as many layers as you wish.
- Cleaned up some of the HTML and fixed some layout bugs.
- Fixed last post by X user not coloring correctly.

Shadowlands Forum is a flexible, friendly, robust chatroom reachable via any telnet client. Shadowlands Forum project uses UNIX username and password for authentication, and includes the authlocal module to authenticate quickly from localhost.
Shadowlands Forum is the dedicated, wonderful work of Jeremy Monin, Dan Chin, and Matt Lochansky, and is released under the GNU Public License. Matt also did these web docs.
Its been under constant use and development by the shadowlands community for the last four years, and used by countless other places as well.
Enhancements:
- A recap of recent conversation when connecting.
- A user count file for checking status from outside the room.
- The prompt character can be changed at compile time.

WWW Forum is an extremely fast and reliable Web forum that is fully configurable and packed with features.

The primary focus is the forum (message board), but many other useful communications
features are either already implemented or planned for a future release. These all make a consistent and elegant interface.

In the spirit of open source software, anyone can help to make WWW Forum better. You can contribute in the following ways:

Submit helpful and descriptive bug reports when you find a problem.
Request features that you would find useful. Good ideas will most certainly be included in future releases of WWW Forum.
Submit code, patches, or suggestions. Bug fixes are a tremendous help and can save the developers a great deal of time. Even if you do not know exactly how to fix a particular bug, any insight (guesses) you may have can still be extremely helpful. Join the WWW Forum development team! Contribute directly to open source software and help make WWW Forum better. To join the team, you must have a SourceForge account (http://sf.net/), and you must join the developers mailing list by sending email to: