Free message board software for linux

GameFOX TK 0.7.1 is professionally designed as a Firefox extension that improves browsing of the GameFAQs message boards.

Phorum project is a web based message board written in PHP. Phorum is designed with high-availability and visitor ease of use in mind.

Features such as mailing list integration, easy customization and simple installation make Phorum a powerful add-in to any website.

As of Phorum 5.0, PHP 4.2.x or higher is required. Some people have used it with earlier versions, but we can not support you on it. There were some key changes in that version that are beneficial to Phorum.

You can get PHP from the PHP site or if you are leasing web space, your provider may already have it installed. As database there is currently only MySQL supported while it should be possible to port the database layer to other databases. MySQL is available from MySQL AB. It is OpenSource. Just download, decompress, configure and go.

Another great thing about Phorum is that it is OpenSource software and is licensed under the Phorum License (Very similar to the PHP License and Apache License). This means it is free! But you need to be sure and read the license before using it.

Genoa Active Message MAchine is a low-latency, high-throughput driver wrapper for the Linux kernel, using Active Ports (a version of Active Messages).
Genoa Active Message MAchine runs parallel to the IP stack and is designed for LANs only.
Main features:
- A low latency, high throughput communication system for clusters of PCs
- Supports both single and dual CPU processing nodes (Intel IA-32 or x86_64)
- Runs on Gigabit Ethernet
- SPMD parallel processing with message passing
- Can run IP traffic when not in use
- Good programmability thanks to fairly high abstraction level
- Reliable thanks to mechanisms for retransmission of missing packets
- Implemented as a network device driver for Linux 2.6, and released under GNU GPL
Network Of Workstations (NOWs) and clusters of PCs interconnected by modern, industry-standard LAN fabrics (Gigabit Ethernet, Myrinet, SCI) and running the Linux operating system, have became an attractive and cost-effective architecture for parallel and distributed applications. The usual drawback of a standard PC cluster is the poor performance of the support to inter-process communication over the interconnect. Current implementations of industry-standard communication primitives, APIs, and protocols, usually show high communication latencies and low communication throughput.
We have developed a system for inter-process communication, called the Genoa Active Message MAchine (GAMMA). GAMMA runs on Linux clusters of PCs with Intel IA-32 processors (Intel Pentium, AMD K6, and superior models), or x86_64 processors (AMD Athlon64, AMD Opteron, Intel EMT-64), networked by a Gigabit Ethernet.
The core of GAMMA is a custom Linux network device driver, which operates the Network Interface Card (NIC). The GAMMA driver delivers low latency, high throughput communication services based on Active Ports, a mechanism derived from Active Messages. Both point-to-point and broadcast communications are provided. Broadcast communication exploits the Ethernet broadcast directly.
The GAMMA driver is able to manage standard IP traffic as long as no parallel job is running. Therefore, all IP services are up and running whenever the cluster is not in use by any parallel job.
The communication mechanisms implemented in the GAMMA driver are made available to application writers through the GAMMA user library. The GAMMA library provides support to application launch, process grouping, point-to-point/broadcast communications based on the Active Ports mechanisms, and some collective routines (barrier synchronization, and broadcast).
GAMMA provides two levels of QoS. The lower one, corresponding to the fastest communications, is a best-effort service. With this service, network congestion and ``hot spots may cause the receiver NIC or even the LAN switch to loose packets by overrun. The other QoS level provides flow-controlled communication, ensuring reliability up to hardware faults, at a negligible performance penalty.
Installing the GAMMA driver requires only two small and marginal patches to the original Linux kernel. The Linux kernel extended by the GAMMA driver must be installed on each PC in the cluster.
A porting of MPI atop GAMMA is available, called MPI/GAMMA.

python-dime project provides a way to parse and generate DIME messages.

Direct Internet Message Encapsulation (DIME) is a binary message format that can be used to encapsulate multiple payloads into a single message.

WWW::BBSWatch can send, via email, messages posted to a WWW bulletin board.

SYNOPSIS

use WWW::BBSWatch; # should really be a subclass

sub WWW::BBSWatch::article_list { # generates warning (rightly so)
my $self = shift;
my $content = shift;
return ($$content =~ m%($self->{bbs_url}?read=d*)%gs);
}
BBSWatch->new(-MAIL => me,
-BBS_URL => http://www.foo.org/cgi-bin/bbs.pl)->retrieve;
There are many interesting discussions that take place on World Wide Web Bulletin Boards, but I do not have the patience to browse to each article. I can process email and newsgroups many times faster than a WWW bulletin board because of the lag inherent in the web. Instead of ignoring this wealth of information, WWW::BBSWatch was created. It will monitor a World Wide Web Bulletin Board and email new postings to you. The email headers are as correct as possible, including reasonable From, Subject, Date, Message-Id and References entries.
This module requires LWP::UserAgent and MIME::Lite.
INTERFACE
$b = WWW::BBSWatch->new
Arguments are:
-BBS_URL: The URL of the bulletin boards index page. This field is required.
-MAIL: The email address to send mail to
-MDA: Sets the mail delivery agent by calling MIME::Lite::send(HOW, HOWARGS). If a scalar value is passed in, it is passed as send(" sendmail?, $mda_value). If an array ref is provided, send(@$mda_value) is called.
-DB: Basename of the database that keeps track of visited articles
-WARN_TIMEOUT: Number of seconds before warning message is sent proclaiming inability to contact BBS_URL page. Default is 10,800 (3 hours).
-MAX_ARTICLES: Maximum number of articles to send in one batch. Default is essentially all articles.
-VERBOSE: Controls the amount of informative output. Useful values are 0, 1, 2. Default is 0 (completely silent).

$b->retrieve([$catchup])

This method emails new bulletin board messages. If the optional parameter catchup is true, messages will be marked as read without being emailed. Nothing useful will happen unless the article_list method is defined to return the list of articles from the BBSs index page.

WWW::BBSWatch uses the LWP::UserAgent module to retrieve the index and articles. It honors firewall proxies by calling the LWP::UserAgent::env_proxy method. So if you are behind a firewall, define the environment variable http_proxy and your firewall will be handled correctly.

Risk is a Java version of the classic RISK board game, with a simple map format, network play, single player mode, hotseat, and many more features. Risk works on all operating system that run Java 1.4 or higher.

THCNET Message System project is a customizable PHP-enabled Web application which provides a moderated message system using a backend MySQL database.
Installation
download and install MySQL. download and install apache with mod_rewrite
and php4 or php5 compiled with the pspell libraries.
note: I use MySQL 5.0 and PHP 5.1 in development of THCNET, but it should
work with earlier versions.
do the following
modify the *.template *.css files to make things look how you want
modify the any and all source code as you see fit.
As of release 1.0.pre5 thcnet has an auto-installer/revision control
feature that makes the initial setup much easier.
copy all the files into your htdocs directory on your web server
open index.php in your browser. It will prompt you for values it needs
to perform the installation. Click on setup and it will create the
database for you and populate it.
Now that you have THCNET setup, the first task will be to apply as a new
user. The first user to apply will be given sys-admin rights.
Now you can customize features by clicking on the Admin link to the
left.
Enhancements:
- This release adds the ability to further control the system based on policy maps.