[TriLUG] Yay! A Linux content management system related question.

wayy2be wayy2be at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 8 08:13:26 EST 2007


Which is better, Joomla or Drupal?  I am designing a intranet and I would like to use the best one of the two....

Matt Pusateri <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com> wrote:  The latest version of Drupal seems really nice. Also look at what
plugins/extensions a CMS has as it may tie in better to other foss
software your using.

Robert Dale wrote:
> On 3/6/07, OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
>> Here we go:
>>
>> I've decided to help a non-profit (Church), re-vamp their
>> website/infrastructure. Here's what I'm searching for:
>>
>> - Web Content Mangment system that's easy for them to maintain.
>> - Web Site (that's both easy to move/add/change).
>> - Mail (possibly web) -- and d-e-f-i-n-a-t-e-l-y spam filtering. After
>> all, there's no need for pr0n e-mails to be hitting the pastor's mailbox
>> ;).
>> - Blogging (it'd be great to have the capability for people out doing
>> missionary work to be able to blog about their experiences).
>> - Firewall (they only need web/ftp/smtp).
>>
>> ...obviously Windows will not cut it here because of the cost, and I'd
>> like to have something where I could spend an hour or two with someone
>> ...and they could run with it. (They are computer savvy -- just not too
>> much with web stuff).
>>
>> ...distro recommendations would be great too. (As I KNOW Gentoo is going
>> to be way too much for them to maintain / manage).
>
> If you don't have enough options for CMS be sure to look at
> http://www.cmsmatrix.org
> http://www.oscom.org/matrix/
> http://www.opensourcecms.com/ (installed demos)
>
> I'm looking at Joomla myself mostly because there's a theme for it I
> really like. But I plan on giving drupal a spin.
>

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