Free forums software for linux

3D Realms Forums NavMenu provides easy navigation through the 3D Realms forums.

Basically this lists all forums and some other sections of the 3D Realms Forums in its own menu at the top of Firefox. This allows you to jump to any forum from anywhere on the web.

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.

jzForum is a simple forum system based on the jZonic framework that supports multiple forums and RSS feeds for forums, categories, and threads.
User and rights management is integrated. It is very easy to install because it uses hypersonic as a database, although it can be used with different databases.
The look and feel can easily be changed using CSS. It currently supports user, moderator, and admin roles with a defined set of permissions.
Main features:
- supports several forums
- rss feeds for forums/categories/threads
- user and right management
- uses jZonic as framework
- easy to install (one war file and NO database)
- uses hypersonic as database but can run with different databases
- easy to change the look and feel (jzForum uses css and nearly no tables)
- 3 different roles (user, moderator and admin) with a defined set of permissions
- support for different themes (currently 4 different ones)
- every user can select his favourite theme in his settings
- included full text search engine (using lucene)
- user can watch threads
- i18n support (english and german currently). The i18n is on a user base.
- full featured voting subsystem integrated
- generate access log file in Apache log format which can be analyzed by any standard compliant tool
- very fast due to heavily caching
- supports MySQL as alternative database
- private messaging with user quota
- includes a polling system
- full support of the famous BBCode
- preview pane when posting a new post using AJAX to get rid off reload of the page
Enhancements:
- This release fixes a bug where user could not change his password.
- The forum was not working when the installation directory contained spaces in the directory name.
- Editing of a reply is now working. It created a new reply in v1.3.
- The fix was to update to the latest version of jLo and jConfig.

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

Quick.Forum provides a simple, fast message board with category filtering and a flat file backend.
Quick.Forum is a fast, simple, and multilingual message board. It is based on text files and features a search engine, categories, and filters.
There is full administration for topics, answers, and categories.
Forum topics are displayed in a single window with color differentiation between categories.
Categories can be filtered on a per-user basis.
Main features:
- Freeware - based on licensed GPL with additional conditions,
- Simple installation - This tool is based on a secure flat files (SQL base not required). Installation needs just a few minutes and just the basic knowledge about FTP connection use,
- Stability - Application has been used since December 2003. Because of a common access to this application, any errors are immediately detected and removed,
- Speed - in designing this application, we tried to minimize the HTML code and also made possible generating small pictures, making web loading as short as possible,
- Standards - our solutions are compatible with XHTML 1.0 and also with settings of most of the popular servers,
- Template system - we made our best effort to separate the logic and presentational layers from each other. The application outlook change, is really simple and it works through templates in which complicated PHP language is not used at all.
Enhancements:
- html/css optimization
- updated libraries
- bugfixes

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.