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11-27-2002, 06:23 PM

justBe Ponderer Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 63		wich open forum is the best? hey people! im doing some research on forum solutions... and im not sure wich one to choose.... openbb, phpbb.... this pocketpc forum? (is any of those)... i hear you guys... im running a .net server.. i know that mysql and posgres work in win32.... any recomendations??? thanks! :wink:

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11-27-2002, 06:40 PM

justBe Ponderer Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 63		woopss.. answer from eugenia.. :) i just had a chat with eugenia from www.osnews.com and she told me that my best choice on windows is phpBB (i think this forums is phpbb) and mysql.. cause postgres doesnt run so good on windows... anyway.. i still wan youre comments! :roll:

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11-27-2002, 06:49 PM

ThomasC22 Sage Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 748		By open do you mean "free" or "Source Code Available and Supported"?

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11-27-2002, 06:55 PM

justBe Ponderer Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 63		i mean open source.... anyway.. i can hear your tips about closed software too

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11-27-2002, 07:16 PM

renz Pupil Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 42		Hi, phpBB is really cool, flexible, stable and ... FREE! It´s great! Have a look at http://www.phpbb.com and read the forum (Community) to get a lot more information about phpBB. Renz

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11-27-2002, 07:21 PM

justBe Ponderer Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 63		thanks.. already downloading.. requires many things.. cause i want to run it on a .net server.... so.. downloading mysql... cygwin... php.. phpbb2.03... and other things... these afternoon ill post how im going with this! thanks!

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11-28-2002, 06:44 AM

ThomasC22 Sage Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 748		Well, if you're running .NET server you might want to at least look into this. I really have no experience with it but I made a quick glance over of it and it looked pretty good. It runs on ASP.NET so it should be a snap to set up.

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11-28-2002, 12:27 PM

justBe Ponderer Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 63		hey! im gonna check that! thansk! the source is available... i have to recompile??? :?

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11-30-2002, 01:21 AM

kuya Neophyte Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 6		maxwebportal forum runs very smoothly on my win2k machine. it support asp and ms access so you don't need to install anything. setup takes less than 5mins. goto www.aspin.com and search for it.

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11-30-2002, 04:18 PM

justBe Ponderer Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 63		thanks ! i ve been trying to install asp.net forum with the msde (microsoft data engine) but no luck... on a .net standard server.. so ill check out that! thanks!

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