On 10/08/12 23:42, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 08/10/2012 11:13 PM, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: >> On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 22:59 +0100, Karanbir Singh wrote: >>> I'd never heard of it before, anyone have any experience with it? >> >> Ideologically it's something along the lines of Phorum, but new, fancy, >> with more features packed in and by default looks a bit more like >> StackOverflow. It all boils down to an assessment of whether it fits >> your requirements better than the others or not... >> > > personally, I think lets thrash our phpbb and smf - and look at > alternatives if we find a blocker that prevents us from using either. > I've installed SMF in a CentOS 6 VM here and have started to set it up. It has about a million settings to tweak and some of those are not immediately obvious to a new forum admin :-) The good news is that it seems to coexist with selinux quite happily, the only setting I had to change was to allow httpd to network_connect_db but that's to be expected as the selinux boolean work_magically is still being worked on. New board and forum set up seems to be fairly straight forward, permissions seem a bit incomprehensible but that's probably just a matter of getting used to what it all means. No doubt I shall make a few cock ups on the permission front before I get the hang of what it all means. Overall, so far, I like the look of SMF in its out-of-the-box state more than I do the phpbb instance that KB has running. That one looks a bit Janet-and-John to me with big fonts and, thankfully, I'm not yet *quite* old enough to need large print books again. Late now so I shall look again tomorrow and see what else I can see. T