free forum software
 

I work for the computing department here at my school and I'm working with a full time staff member to implement some kind of internal forums for our organization.

I'm trying to find some kind of free forum management system. I only know of 1 - iKonboard. Does anyone know any others?

Basically, it needs to be able to be installed on a linux box (probably Mandrake). Other than that, I have no experience in setting this up on anything but a Windows box, so any other suggestions would be helpful! (such as installing database software on the box, etc).

Thanks!

phpbb is free

Yabb forum software is free, as well as phpbb like cynthetiq mentioned. Below is a nice link from Google.

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...forum+software

Yeah, just run a phpbb setup. There's a reason it's so bloody popular. And if you know php the customization options are practically endless, so you should have no problem setting it up to suit your needs.

EDIT - and as far as setup goes, well, it's php. So you're looking at setting up an Apache server with php implemented. If you can handle hat (and if you're getting paid as a network admin I'd assume you can) then you're set.

yea i'm not a network admin, just a student manager for the computing department assigned this job, but i'll look into phpbb! thanks so much for the info, guys.

check out this site
http://www.opensourcecms.com/index.p...tpage&Itemid=1
they have a bunch of different online softwares like forums
you can test out all the different ones, from user perspective and admin perspective... and you dont have to worry about messing things up they reset themselves ever 2 hours

thanks for the info dude