About Freeworld BBS

The FreeWorld BBS is an attempt to create an easy to use, yet robust platform to run a BBS on under Unix. It's focus is around making the system similar to the old DOS based systems of the past while incorporating various networking featues in use today. The system is being designed so that it can be run as a stand alone 1 line dial-in system, or can be setup as a single unit of a network of systems spread out across the internet.

Currently the system is still in it's alpha stages but is coming along quickly. At this time though FreeWorld is not ready for regular use.

Recent News

02/21/01

Mailing list server upgraded to Mailman version 2.0.1.

07/04/00

The primary hard disk on the FreeWorldBBS.ORG server crashed. After a hardware and OS upgrade, the site is back online. However, there will likely be brief interruptions during the next few weeks as I tweak the system.

11/30/99

Version 0.3.1 has just been released. This version contains several bug fixes from the previous release plus the server has gone through some major changes, one of which is being broken up into modules.

09/25/99

Version 0.3.0 has just been released. The main differences over 0.2.2 are the Python support in FWB Menu, the start of the message areas, working server based prompts and files, and documentation of the libray functions. There are plenty of other changes and bug fixes that have been made in the two months since 0.2.2 and you can view the ChangeLog file in the distro to see them.

09/23/99

Added a todo list today to the web site. This list is not meant to be an intended feature list but more of what needs to be worked on in the code before we can actually be ready for an official release.

08/16/99

We just added a screenshot page today. We will be placing screenshots of various parts of FWB there as they are updated.

08/09/99

Just setup a test site here today. When connecting login as 'bbs'. You will then be placed at the bbs login. There isn't much there yet as I really haven't worked much on the menus but we will be adding to it as we get a chance. If you have any questions or comments about the system please send them to Darren Braun