Best software to use for Forums, such as Amiga.org, any platform.

[persia]

bbPHP isn't bad, or if you want a whole content management system Drupal is quite nice...

[Amithony]

Love the bug btw

[InTheSand]

persia wrote:
...if you want a whole content management system Drupal is quite nice...

Ditto for Joomla (which I found easier than Drupal to just get something basic up and running - just my preference though, haven't really looked at the current releases of either for 6-12 months).

 - Ali

[Amithony]

Wow! That looks fantastic. I think this is more like what im after. And its opensource?

[weirdami]

@InTheSand

Are there any sort of security issues with SMF? That's one thing I worry about with the self-hosted stuff because I don't want to have to be a security expert just to have something online.

[Amithony]

My use is for something like an intranet. Other than MS sharepoint, which sux.

[InTheSand]

weirdami wrote:
Are there any sort of security issues with SMF?

Can't say I found any... I've only ever used it on one public-facing site, but access to its forums is by invitation only. This was 2+ years ago and the site is still up and running (and not hacked as far as I'm aware!!)

@Amithony:
Both Joomla and Drupal are open source.

Another good basic combination for a public-facing site (with content modified by a single administrator) is to use CMSimple for the content (e.g. read-only to the public) with SMF providing the forums.

With pretty much any of these, my preferred route is something along these lines: grab old junk hardware with >=512Mb RAM, install Ubuntu, install Apache/MySQL/PHP, install any other pre-requisites, then install the forum/content management software. It really is zero-cost computing!

And... on the subject of useful OSS stuff, if you've got a proprietary and/or unmaintainable training system in your company, Moodle is definitely worth a look...

 - Ali