Do you have any OSS web forum software suggestions?

[funkadelic]

vBulletin is proprietary! This seems very counter to the “Ubuntu Way” … :confused:


I am looking for a good OSS web forums package… can anyone recommend one?

[KiwiNZ]

This has been answered several times

Refer this link http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=176622

[matthew]

Please click the Forums FAQ link in my sig for more details.


Why does a forum for free software use a proprietary software?
While we would love to use an open source solution, vBulletin provides all that we need right now and also much of what we want. Other software does not. Serving this community well is our main priority and so we can/will not use something that does not provide what we require. If anything else provided what we must have and what we really would like to have, we would be using it instead; at this juncture, there is no viable alternative.

[daller]

vBulletin is proprietary! This seems very counter to the “Ubuntu Way” … :confused:


I am looking for a good OSS web forums package… can anyone recommend one?

I would suggest phpBB

http://www.phpbb.com/

[funkadelic]

Thanks for the quick reply -- I can't say I agree with the logic completely, but the point about Linus using proprietary BitKeeper was thought provoking.

Still... can someone recommend a good OSS alternative? SMF seems to have some followers...

Change the thread title perhaps?

[matthew]

Change the thread title perhaps?Done. Hopefully you can find something that will work for your purposes.

[az]

Still... can someone recommend a good OSS alternative?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PunBB

and

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PhpBB2