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BBS Software for Unix?

Posted by Cliff on from the ahhh-good-old-forum-hacks dept.

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.

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  1. Try EleBBS by nbvb · · Score: 3, Interesting

    EleBBS is written mostly as an RA clone... works pretty well in Linux.. and is FREE!

    http://www.elebbs.com/

    And the author, Maarten Beckers is a good guy. :-)

    --nbvb

  2. Text/Ansi BBS for Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You might try TVBBS.. From Temporal-Vortex.
    It's written in PERL, and supports many common BBS functions.