Free contribs forum software for linux

Want a forum for your website, but dont want to deal with the feature bloat and persistent security problems of the popular PHP packages?

Lazarus Forum project is intended to be a simple, no-frills forum for any web site that can use CGI executables.

Lazarus Forum is distributed as source code which you can compile and install on your own system. You are also free to modify this source code to do anything you want.

pmacct is a small set of passive network monitoring tools to measure, account and aggregate IPv4 and IPv6 traffic; aggregation revolves around the key concept of primitives (VLAN id, source and destination MAC addresses, hosts, networks, AS numbers, ports, IP protocol and ToS/DSCP field are supported) which may be arbitrarily combined to build custom aggregation methods; support for historical data breakdown, triggers and packet tagging, filtering and sampling.

Aggregates can be stored into memory tables, SQL databases (MySQL or PostgreSQL) or simply printed to stdout. Data is collected from the network either using libpcap (and optionally promiscuous mode) or reading NetFlow v1/v5/v7/v8/v9 and sFlow v2/v4/v5 datagrams, both unicast and multicast.

IP accounting is the key in ISP/IXP network operations like billing, graphing network resources usage, live or historical traffic analysis, handling of network thresholds, provisioning and SLA monitoring. SNMP counters sometime are not this useful because of their coarse granularity.

Finer granularities become valuable if data are historical and match logical entities of interest such as Autonomous System Numbers, departmental or customer network chunks, specific traffic flows, etc. Further, actual large-scale networks are able to produce, in very short times, high amounts of data that become quickly difficult to be processed in a meaningful way

In this context, traffic aggregation and advanced filtering and sampling capabilities are requirements that cannot be missed anymore.

Either using memory or SQL tables as backend storage, pmacct can easily feed data to tools like MRTG, RRDtool, Cacti and Gnuplot among the others. A little scripting abilities are required to glue pmacct with external tools and a number of sample scripts and some tutorials are already available.

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

TalkBack Forum 2 is a Firefox extension that shows a menu option which launches a discussion forum topic. Matches the web page and any selected/highlighted text to other discussion groups and web sites. Allows adding discussion to any web page.

Two benefits:

1) quickly right-click on any subject and talkback about it.
2) Add talk back to any web page easily.

#1 searches for and lists any existing discussion for the topic highlighted based on the page and any selection. #1 also searches the web for related pages. The conext of the search may be set with the menus at the left.

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.

Quicksilver Forums is a fast, feature rich bulletin board system. Quicksilver Forums is fully object oriented and optimized for speed, ease of use, and easy modification.
It checks all inputs though a common interface, which drastically reduces the chances of exploitable bugs. A powerful and flexible skinning engine makes giving your board a new look very simple.
An advanced permissions system allows for fine-grained group and user permissions. It is based on the popular MercuryBoard software.
Main features:
- Fast and light
- Rich in features
- 3D permissions system
- Powerful admin controls
- Complete skinning
- Translated into 18 languages
- Optimised MySQL interaction
- Easy to customise
- Released under the GPL licence
- Free for commercial or personal use
Enhancements:
- Updated German translation - Jens
- Updated Norwegian translation - Ingvild
- Updated Swedish tranlsation - ladyanna
- Added a warning on install if folders are not writable
- Quick reply bbcode and smileys load on focus
- New backup tool uses XML
Bugs addressed:
- Renamed zip class to avoid conflict (#952)
- Jump to newest post on recent posts was using old urls
- Made sure textarea boxes are readable on usual windows themes - Matt
- User posts can go negative (#957)
- Censor words was not processing properly - harakiro
- Converted most languages to utf-8 for JSON compatibility
- Fixing icons in recent posts page (#888)
- Not all backups and skins were showing in restore/install lists
- Validation error in CP_PREFS template
- Undefined string variable during board upgrade. Not fatal.
- Topic marker crash for subforums.
- Forum recount only needs to send the display when used from the AdminCP.

SimpleForum provides a simple Plone forum.

This product provides a simple Plone forum application for cases where you cannot or do not need to setup a full-featured sophisticated product such as Ploneboard (this might be the case if you are still tied to Plone 2.0.x).

eForum project is a discussion forum component.
eForum is server side software that enables geographically distant participants to share ideas and enhance teamwork via the Web.
It allows project moderators to manage feedback and project discussions. Users can subscribe to groups with email notifications - where each new message is emailed to the subscriber.
With messages stored in a database, and classified by topic, it is capable of building a powerful knowledge base.
With release 3.0 eForum is integrated with a Search Engine component to quickly find information need by searching by keywords, topics, titles, authors names, descriptions and other criteria.
As Dave Central says, If youre serious about community, then you should give JCorporates eForum a closer look.
Main features:
- Unlimited Forums
- Allows you to build an unlimited number of forums. You can produce a single forum, or a different forum for each department, target audience, topic or product.
- Multi-Level Forums
- The Forum components support Groups, Threads within Groups, and Messages within a Thread. Groups can also have multipurpose "attributes" assigned, so that custom types of groups can be supported.
- Threaded Discussion
- The discussion forum enhances teamwork and discussion groups through threaded discussion. A thread is arranging message links or message contents in a tree-like structure to reflect post/reply relationship..
- Allows users to subscribe to groups of interest and view messages by visiting the domain, or email delivery of messgages posted.
- llows users to participate in the Forum by posting messages in a given thread and reply to messages
- Allows users to list all categories of messages and see how many messages are in each category
- Allows users to list all the messages in a given category and see how many replies there are to each message
- Allows users to list the replies to a particular message
- Allows users to be informed about which member has posted a message or replied to a message
- Forum Administration
- Allows you to create, update and delete forums.
- Set or modify moderation rights
- Enables message structure of forums, i.e. allow attachments
- Allows ordering, moving and sort messages
- Modify topic headings
- Edit content
- Administer whether to verify messages before placing them online
- and perform other administrative functions.
- Forum Moderation
- Facilitates complete control over published content by allowing moderation of a forum. If desired defined moderators can verify messages before placing them online. Forum displays a page showing all messages awaiting verification in all forums.
- Expresso Security Management
- By using the underlying Expresso Framework layer, you can create user groups and allocate them specific task rights. A range of access rights enables you to distribute forum-related tasks to a high degree of specificity.
- Entire groups of users can be collectively enabled or excluded from viewing or participating in specific forums or groups of forums. Open your forums to a global audience, or limit access to specific user groups.
- Email Support
- Email interaction (e.g. posting to the forum and forwarding from the forum to email addresses) is supported.
- Flexible Message Management
- Easily move messages from one topic to another, gaining flexibility and precision in the display of information.
- Advanced Search Capability
- Ties into the Search Engine component. Search messages by date range, title, author, keywords, topics. Searches are fast and on target, and result in a manageable list of relevant results.
- Rich Content Support - future enhancement
- Forum messages can display attachments in a variety of media .pdf, .jpeg, image, video, audio and much more. Messages can be supported by documents and multimedia files, making professional discussions more efficient and descriptive.