BBS Software for Unix? 16
Walter Bell asks: "Several years ago I used to run a BBS based on the Oblivion/2 software. Obv/2 was an excellent BBS manager, but as far as I can tell, it is still only available on the MS-DOS 3.3 platform. Does anyone know where to find a Linux port of Obv/2 (or any other Forum hack, for that matter) so I can start up my BBS again under Linux?" Ahh...good old Forum. I remember hacking my own copy of Forum and producing a clone called Apex, back in the day. Have ports of any of the old school BBS software platforms ever made it on to Unix? I do remember WWIV was C, so that may have been ported. Not so sure about Forum, however.
Synchronet (Score:2, Informative)
http://www.synchro.net
Citadel/UX for UNIX/Linux (Score:2)
ps what's with the weird [domain] thing being added without my consent?! Irritating.
glFtpd (Score:2, Informative)
Debian users have an advantage (Score:1)
aD! BBS was basically written to provide a nice, easy to use menu / bbs interface, currently it doesn't handle special permissions, group permissions, etc. but they are in the 'todo' list. Supports ANSI Color.
apt-get install adbbs, debheads!
WWIV... (Score:2)
Re:WWIV... (Score:3, Informative)
There is a version being ported to Linux. Here is an excerpt:
WWIV/X 4.25 is a port of WWIV 4.24a for DOS to the Linux platform with additional code from WWIV 4.30 for DOS. It is based on the same code as WWIV for DOS, and significant portions of the code have remained intact. Eventually, we hope to integrate the new features of WWIV 4.30 into WWIV/X, but no timeline for that has been established.
Here is the link: http://kobran.yi.org/wwivx/index.html [yi.org]
-rr
Re:WWIV... (Score:2, Informative)
- Eric
Try EleBBS (Score:3, Interesting)
http://www.elebbs.com/ [elebbs.com]
And the author, Maarten Beckers is a good guy.
--nbvb
Text/Ansi BBS for Linux (Score:1, Interesting)
It's written in PERL, and supports many common BBS functions.
DOSEMU (Score:1)
I've played around with running some DOS apps over SSH using Dosemu before and it worked fairly well.
2 comes to my mind. (Score:3, Informative)
First is Daydream bbs which can be found @ http://daydream.iwn.fi [daydream.iwn.fi]. I think Daydream was first written for Amiga, then ported to msdos/win and now to *nix.
Second is BBBS, which can be found @ http://www.bbbs.net [bbbs.net]. In "Those" days, i wasnt much of a bbbs fan because of its unix'sh interface but dunno what i might say today =)
And yeah, they are both from Finland
Oblivion/2 sources where available. (Score:2)