[PLUG] Blogging/CMS ideas?

[Richard Lidzbarski]

On Tuesday 24 June 2008 10:20:56 pm Ronald Chmara wrote:
> On Jun 24, 2008, at 9:32 PM, Michael Ewan wrote:
> > Richard Lidzbarski wrote:
> >> On Monday 23 June 2008 08:55:07 pm M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> >>> Richard Lidzbarski wrote:
> >>>> In a state of semi-insantity and idle hands I've decided to
> >>>> start up a
> >>>> blog again. I used to use Wordpress but I'm curious about other
> >>>> options.
> >>>> Does anyone have experience with b2evolution, Drupal, Geeklog,
> >>>> Nucleus,
> >>>> etc? I'll be using a webhost (Acornhost) here in Portland. Thanks.
> >>>> Richard
> >>>
> >>> Well, if you're looking for something that's more than a blog, or a
> >>> forum, you might look at Moodle. You need a MySQL database,
> >>> Apache and
> >>> PHP, but just about everyone has that.
> >>
> >> Yeah, I have MySQL, Apache and PHP...forgot to mention that ;-)
> >> For now I just need something to blog with but room to grow later
> >> is always a
> >> nice thing. Im taking a look at Moodle now. Thanks.
> >
> > Drupal is easy to set up and has quite a lot of nice features.  It
> > doesn't do forums very well, phpBB is much better for that.  It also
> > provides RSS feeds of all the pages (nodes), and a nice RSS
> > aggregator also.
>
>  From a statistical/security standpoint, you'll find that different
> pieces of software have different vulnerability track records.
>
> Drupal's is mentioned in 120 CVE's. Wordpress has 143. Geeklog has
> 22. Nucleus has 6. Moodle has 39.
>
> I use NIST as one (of many) reference points when looking at F/OSS
> projects: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm
>
> How you *interpret* those numbers is up to you. My personal choice is
> to not install, or use, Wordpress or Drupal, as the benefits offered
> were far outweighed by the risks involved, and a horrific track
> record always leaves me a tad shy. It was easier for me to hand-build
> HTML pages than spend a ton of time patching oft-exploited software,
> especially for content that was only truly "dynamic" once or twice a
> day... :)
>
> -Bop
>
>
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I've been trying out Drupal,Wordpress,Nucleus,etc. My host has them all ready 
to go on cpanel. Do you (or anyone else) have an opinion on b2evolution? I've 
read that its  CVEs are in the low single digits too.

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