Re: BLOG: What Would You Recommend For A 'Blogging System?

From: Michael Perry (mperry_at_lnxpowered.org)
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 15:34:05 -0000

On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 16:41:47 GMT, A Nengineer wrote:
> Here's my situation:
>
> I have a SOHO network behind a NAT Router/Firewall. All requests go to
> the Linux server (HTTP, FTP, SMTP, etc.) I use the Linux server for a
> file server as well as to serve web pages, etc., to the outside world.
>
> I use Windows XP as a desktop OS otherwise.
>
> I would like to set up an easy-to-use blogging system that would allow
> me to edit/add content to the published blog from my Windows system, and
> serve the blog pages from my Linux server, which runs Apache 2.x.
>
> The good thing of course is that I have complete control over the
> webserver, so I can be as flexible as I want to be, but I'd still like
> to keep it simple.
>
> I would probably like to have the capacity to allow outside comments on
> blog articles, though that's not absolutely necessary if it would overly
> complicate things.
>
> The problem is that there is just a plethora of products out there, and
> I have neither the time nor the inclination to download, install and try
> out everything. Time is of the essence.
>
> I would like some recommendations based on the scenario I've described.
> Feel free to ask further questions. Although this obviously helps me
> out, I suspect there are many out there in my same predicament for whom
> such a discussion would be welcome.
>
> Thanks and regards from Texas, USA.

There are so many choices for what you want these days. I'll give you a
few to start out with and you can read how they're used, etc. Most have
what are called offline blog clients or clients which don't depend on a
web browser to do the posting. The two I am most familiar with these
days are:

Wordpress - http://www.wordpress.org
MovableType - http://www.movabletype.org

There are numerous clients that will do these weblogs such as:

W.bloggar - http://www.wbloggar.com
Zempt - http://www.zempt.com

A linux one -

bloGTK - http://blogtk.sf.net

Now for which one will suit your purposes... The best way may be just to
try each. Get a feel for what each offers. Wordpress installs in about
5 minutes or so IF you satisfy the core requirements which include mysql
and PHP. MovableType takes a bit more work since it does some checking
on supported modules. Since you said keep it simple, I would try
WordPress. A test install can be done very quickly and you could see
within minutes if it suits. 

-- 
Michael Perry | do or do not. There is no try. -Master Yoda
mperry@lnxpowered.org | http://www.lnxpowered.org

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