[ale] Linux Based Dotnetnuke Replacement Recommendation

Jim Lynch ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com
Fri Sep 24 13:09:40 EDT 2010


On 09/24/2010 11:59 AM, George Carless wrote:
> Bob Kruger (bkruger at mindspring.com) wrote the following on Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 08:36:49PM -0400:
>    
>>     All;
>>
>>     I have inherited management of a web site that utilizes Dotnetnuke, and I
>>     have found the experience less than desirable.
>>
>>     Is there a similar web based application that allows the same
>>     functionality that runs on Linux based platforms that can be recommended?
>>      
> Drupal?  Really, it depends on what you mean by "the same functionality," but Drupal's my favourite of the FOSS CMS.
>
> Regards,
> George
>    
I maintained a Drupal install for a while and it's labor intensive, 
especially if you do any customizing.  Drupal is following a "cutting 
edge" philosophy like Fedora and they drop support too quickly for older 
release, IMHO.  IIRC, they only support back 2 releases and with release 
coming every 9 months or so (just a guess) you have to upgrade often if 
you want security fixes which are rather important in a CMS.

Lanius is a reasonable CMS as long as you can live without a lot of 
addons and templates.  PHPNUKE is the old standby, but I've never tried it.

Here's a site that lists some choices you might be interested in.
http://spyrestudios.com/free-content-management-systems/
Jim.



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