Whats smf?
Its like the kinda forum board thing yeh? whats the differences/advantages/disadvantages. \
Or im just wrong lol
Yeah, it's a forum system. This forum is powered by phpBB at the moment.
Main advantage of SMF is that it doesn't suck like phpBB does

. Nah, take a look at its feature list at
http://www.simplemachines.org/. It offers lots of features that phpBB (the software here) doesn't have, and SMF 2.0 even moreso; take a look at
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=163438.0 
Also, it allows easier integration into a website. For example, once the FreeStudyNotes site is actually up, we could list all the latest forum topics on the front page relatively easily. And we could even have a login system that's tied into the forum; forum accounts also work on the site (BoS does this on parts of their site, for instance).
Anyways, this is going too offtopic... back on topic...

We can always discuss SMF elsewhere =]