I know the Discuz makes great progresses in BBS forum systems. almost all such sites are powered by Discuz. meanwhile the XOOPS is much lagging behind. The core system did not get refreshed for years and This should be one of the reasons that most modules did not work with 2.5 or late.

What I realy want for a forum, comparing to what Discuz does, are content that is paid to see or relying to view (part of the post, not all).

Instead turn to Discuz, I sitll want to stick to XOOPS for I need my site does more than just a forum.

Hope there are some modules which do what I expect. whether they are paid or free. I prefer free module...

Just curious to know if the xoops can run on any linux despite which is 32bit or 64bit.

I am going to try this xoops, and do not know if I need a 32bit linux or 64bit linux, for I can not run 64bit on my vmware workstation. which need me to turn off intel trusted execution and turn on the VT-x. I do not want do this for I am not sure if it is safe to my computer if I turn the trusted execution off.