[CentOS] very simple bulletin board

Tue Oct 23 17:26:21 UTC 2007
Dave <wintermutecx at gmail.com>

On 10/23/07, Ross S. W. Walker <rwalker at medallion.com> wrote:
> Dave wrote:
> >
> >  I need to quickly setup a temporary BBS/message board system for the
> > fires in San Diego. We just want people to post if they have rooms
> > available. So I'm looking for a a very simple and easy to get running
> > BBS system. Any suggestions?
>
> Forum style or Wiki style?
>
> If it is wiki style then mediawiki is a good choice, stable fairly
> easy to setup, needs a mysql or postgres backend database, it's at
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
>
> If it is more of a Forum style check out SMF at
> http://www.simplemachines.org/
>

 either or as long as I can get it running in 30 minutes or so. I
recall having one a number of years ago that used the native DB on all
linux boxes. If I recall it used only 2 or so html pages and a flat
DB. Both of those seem a little overkill for what I'm looking for.