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It seems counter-intuitive, but the Simple Machines Forum is actually an excellent base for a CMS. There are a number of CMS-plugins for it, thousands of themes and extensions, and almost all of them are free. SMF is open source.

- excellent, fine-grained user management
- active development
- clean code, easily modifiable
- large user base
- vulnerabilities are far and few between, and fixed aggressively
- literally thousands of plugins and extensions
- excellent support forums

Personally I like TinyPortal, ezPortal, and PortaMx, but there are others.

vBulletin is written in plain/visible PHP. It is open source. I have worked in places using it in the past and modified the source to fix issues or add functionality (though directly editing the source is not usually a good solution, it's better to use one of the built in hooks).

That said, one should distinguish between OSS and FOSS. vBulletin is not FOSS. You do pay licensing for it, and it's not free to distribute. Various modules can also be encoded/encrypted, as many third-parties that create vBulletin plugins have been known to do.

If Ubuntu want to go full FOSS, they could have used something like SMF, however vBulletin is more popular and (when last I used the two) featureful.

Because apparently the hacker's have managed to crack them.

and that the attackers have apparently managed to decrypt to passwords, causing another forum breach: here

SMF (Simple Machines Forum) seconded, coming from someone who's administered both vB and phpBB forums. Once I started using SMF I never looked back, and converted all the other boards I ran to it.

I've been using Simple Machines Forum for a number of years, and although I would say that it's totally customizable, there are number of templates and adds for it, it's very stable, and has worked great for me. And it's free, although it's a always a good idea to become a through $50 a year at them and become a charter member (having said that, I think I've let my charter membership lapse at the moment!). Development seems very slow, with releases few and far between; however I'm still very pleased that I chose SMF when I went looking for forum software.

I've been using Simple Machines Forum for a number of years, and although I would say that it's totally customizable, there are number of templates and adds for it, it's very stable, and has worked great for me. And it's free, although it's a always a good idea to become a through $50 a year at them and become a charter member (having said that, I think I've let my charter membership lapse at the moment!). Development seems very slow, with releases few and far between; however I'm still very pleased that I chose SMF when I went looking for forum software.

SMF - http://www.simplemachines.org/

what I use and with the GIGANTIC plugin support it's amazing. I never get spam problems, I have SMF set to use my wordpress logins for authentication, which means my wordpress uses Akismet to block spam therefore SMF uses it also since SMF users are set to be same as my wordpress users. Uses same database for logins.

Which sounds like what you are looking for, users log in to your website means they are logged in to both wordpress and smf with 1 account automatically.

SMF forums also have "bulletproof security" plugins similar to Wordpress that monitor sql threats, use 301 redirects and htaccess to shore up any problems it may think can happen.

course nothing is 100% but I love SMF and it's huge versatility, offers more plugins and themes than other stuff like phpbb/vbulletin. And my opinion is more secure when merged with sites like wordpress using Akismet for accounts.

Yeah I couldn't handle either mess. I've built some of my web apps on DooPHP which I've found to be really well coded (building a blog would be a snap, in fact it's one of their demo apps) and based a couple communities on Simple Machines Forum, which is kinda messy on the backend, and another on Vanilla Forums which is actually quite nice underneath.

http://doophp.com/
http://vanillaforums.org/
http://simplemachines.org/

Note that SMF (Simple Machines Forum) isn't technically free open source software either. See their license for details: http://www.simplemachines.org/about/license.php.

So they could easily do the same thing and go commercial and non-freely available too without any rights for anybody to fork it later on. Hence why I'm not interested in using their forum for any serious site.

I'm a pretty big fan of Drupal myself (the only thing I've got against it is I don't care for PHP much), but I've got to agree with you that the Drupal forum module, while basically functional, is really ugly.

I like SMF for a forum app, and there is a pretty good SMF bridge Drupal module that handles user synchronization between the two, and gives you few nifty blocks for showing recent posts and other SMF information in Drupal sidebars. It's worked pretty well for me in a couple projects.

I like that forum software. Are you one of the developers or otherwise involved with Simple Machines?

Simple Machines does a decent job. Usually releasing patch files that you download from their site via the admin panel or uploading them directly and installing them.

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php? action=about:unknown

I have an installation of SugarCRM "Open Source" on my laptop that I am using for evaluation purposes. I attempted to install a plugin created by a developer, and somehow it modified the code that displays the SugarCRM logo image on every page. All of a sudden, I was completely locked out of the system. I could no longer log in, even to disable the plugin that I had installed. The error message "Please replace the SugarCRM logos" kept popping up every time. So I Googled around a bit and found this article about "Badgeware":

http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=867

Apparently this "feature" was added into the code to try and prevent companies like vTiger from doing exactly what the parent poster said - exercise their rights under the "Sugar Public License". You can't even post the word "vTiger" on their forums without it being censored:

http://sugarcrm.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20207

There are lots of companies trying to jump on the open source bandwagon, but not many that actually stick with a "real" open source license like the GPL.

1. about:config
1.1 browser.tabs.closeButtons = 3
1.2 browser.backspace_action = 0

2 Getting alt+[pse...] working as in 1.X series

Short answer: Use alt+shift+[pse...]

Long answer:

This cannot be done ATM, as even the workaround only makes alt+s work, not alt+p, for example.
For the curious, you can try setting: ui.key.contentAccess = 4. But it will only get you there
half way. More information: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34971 6. Sam things
said over here: http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php? topic=122226.msg780638#msg780638

If you want to see the source file in emacs that generated that, check out the muse source for my site. Keep in mind that when using it in Emacs, the markup doesn't actually appear - it is converted to the proper fonts on-the-fly in Emacs.

In this context, the use of htmlize is perfect for generating an HTML form of your code buffer from emacs. Whatever your color scheme, htmlize will pick up the colors and use them to generate the HTML. If you're not publishing an entire page, I suggest you set htmlize to use the "font" method for generating html that can be used without corresponding matching CSS. If you use Emacs color-theme package, the theme "BlippBlopp" produces good results for publishing on the web.

The only thing this system lack that I care about is comments, but since no one reads my blog, its not that big of an issue. I installed SimpleMachine's SMF for blog comments and other forum needs. Vanilla may also be a good choice.

Finally, it's worth mentioning that I can then edit my site from anywhere via Tramp mode in Emacs, which allows seamless file editting on remote servers over SSH. This way, I can edit my site from my laptop on the road, or my deskktop at home without worrying about having the code with me. Muse will then publish remotely as well (though there seems to be a bug with RSS generation and Tramp that I need to work out).

Check this out... SimpleMachines.org is certainly a major new player in forum software.

AND, I guess their forum software is so flexible, it can be made into a WIKI-like beast.

View This:
http://docs.simplemachines.org/index.php

then view this:

http://docs.simplemachines.org/?theme=1

You see .. it's actually SMF forums with a "Wiki Theme" - way cool.

You can read how it was done here --> http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php? topic=109062

FWIW, I also found TinyPortal which beefs up SMF into a fully Integrated Site.

http://www.tinyportal.net/

NICE!

Check this out... SimpleMachines.org is certainly a major new player in forum software.

AND, I guess their forum software is so flexible, it can be made into a WIKI-like beast.

View This:
http://docs.simplemachines.org/index.php

then view this:

http://docs.simplemachines.org/?theme=1

You see .. it's actually SMF forums with a "Wiki Theme" - way cool.

You can read how it was done here --> http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php? topic=109062

FWIW, I also found TinyPortal which beefs up SMF into a fully Integrated Site.

http://www.tinyportal.net/

NICE!

Check this out... SimpleMachines.org is certainly a major new player in forum software.

AND, I guess their forum software is so flexible, it can be made into a WIKI-like beast.

View This:
http://docs.simplemachines.org/index.php

then view this:

http://docs.simplemachines.org/?theme=1

You see .. it's actually SMF forums with a "Wiki Theme" - way cool.

You can read how it was done here --> http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php? topic=109062

FWIW, I also found TinyPortal which beefs up SMF into a fully Integrated Site.

http://www.tinyportal.net/

NICE!

I don't agree with some of them. XviD? Yeah, it's okay, but vastly inferior to x264. phpBB? Yeah, not bad software, but not as good as SMF.

For my sites I use SMF and TinyPortal and I have been very pleased with the performance and the scalability of both.

The lameness filter won't let me post the joke contents, so I'll just post the link:

Top Ten Bad Things About Star Trek

It's obviously written by someone who has watched too much star trek ;).