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See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html for more explanation of the difference between the two movements.
The basic philosophy behind open source is very simple: When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, and people fix the bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing.
There are many active Open Source Software projects but some may be thinking you get what you pay for, so if it's free there must be something wrong with it. Sometimes this is true but there are open source software projects providing stable, scalable applications. The key is to know where to look and what to look for when evaluating the stability and scalability.
Here are a few interesting facts and examples of Open Source projects:
Apache is the number one web server at nearly 62% of all installations. Second place was help by Microsoft at just under 27%. (Source: Netcraft)
GNU/Linux is the number two operating system at nearly 30% of all servers behind Microsoft operating system at nearly 50%. (Source: Netcraft)
Sendmail (a mail transport agent) sendmail has become one of the standards of the Internet's infrastructure (TCP/IP, Apache, sendmail).
BIND the Berkley Internet Naming Daemon responsible for mapping domain names to IP addresses ran on 95% of all public reverse DNS servers. (Source: Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California).
MySQL founded in 1995 by two open source veterans, Michael "Monty" Widenius and David Axmark, with the help of Allan Larsson and claims 4 million installations worldwide and 30,000 downloads of the software per day making MySQL by far the planet's most widely distributed open-source database. (Source: mySQL)
PHP is a widely used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML and as of May 2003 it was being used on 12,487,030 domains and 1,321,203 IP addresses. (Source: PHP)
Linux Operating System is over three years old and has grabbed 13.7 percent of the $50.9 billion market for server computers, and that figure is expected to jump to 25.2 percent in 2006, putting Linux in the No. 2 position. (Source: IDC)
SourceForge a site providing support tools and resources for the OSS/Free Software movement recently announced a major two year
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Pricing
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PostNuke is free to download and use for both commercial and non-commercial use. It is licensed under the GNU/GPL version 2 license. The GPL allows you to modify the code without restrictions ensuring you can customize it to fit your project requirements. You can also redistribute your work, with the understanding credit must be given to the original authors and that you must also license the new modified code as GPL. At no time are you permitted to change the license terms.
The GPL license ensures you have full access to the source code. This gives peace of mind about security since nothing is hidden
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The End
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hich was originally based on a PostNuke version but soon forked in a totally different direction under development for a few years.
The fruits of the Adam Baum prokect were released as a new product called Zikula. Efforts have been made to make a migration path to the new product although not all modules and extension are compatible and the migration process can be rather difficult. For details about the migration package, please see the migration release.
Zikula should not be confused with PostNuke since they are spearate products and the underlying code is vastly different. A decision was made to provide security updates for PostNuke until 1st July 2009 and there will be no more releases of PostNuke beyond version 0.764. If security issues are found it is suggested you discontinue use of PostNuke and migrate. If you require professional support doing this you may contact us.
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Open Source
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reasonable cost of reproduction." As opposed to proprietary software that provides you with executable binary code only, not the human readable source code it is derived from.
Another variation of the definition by The Free Software Foundation (FSF) refers to "free software" rather than Open Source S
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Download
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Development has stopped on PostNuke and it is no longer recommended for use due to many security issues. Â Please read "The End".
Downloads are no longer available
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About
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PostNuke is software that creates an impressive, dynamic web site and provides the webmaster with a site they can administer with a minimal amount of HTML knowledge through a web browser.
But, PostNuke's functionality can be increased by installing modules, blocks and themes. For example, you can add a forum, a gallery and contact form. You can also change how your entire site looks by changing themes. All of this can be done with just a few clicks in the administration panel saving you hours of time, both in the initial creation of the website and in its day to day maintenance.
PostNuke can do anything from traditional blog websites, to a community members' only website with hundreds of users. PostNuke can scale to thousands of uses but
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Registered users: admin
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Registration date: Dec 20, 2008
Click the user's name to view his/her complete profile.
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Welcome to Zikula
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system (CMS). It is far more secure and stable than competing products, and is able to work in high-volume environments with ease.
Some of the key features of Zikula are:
customization of all aspects of the web site's appearance through themes, with support for CSS stylesheets
the ability to specify items as being suitable for either a single language or for all languages
the best guarantee of properly displaying your web pages in all browsers, thanks to full compliance with W3C HTML standards
a standard API (application programming interface) and extensive documentation to allow for easy extension of your web site's functionality through modules and blocks.
Zikula has a very active developer and support community at zikula.org.
We hope you will enjoy using Zikula.The Zikula development team
Note: you can edit or remove this message by going to the Administration page and clicking on the 'Administration messages' entry
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0.7x End Of Life
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From 1st October 2008
PostNuke 0.7x will only be available as a download package from code.zikula.org. New modules and themes for the .7x series will no longer be accepted into the Extensions repository after this date, and devlopers are encouraged to convert their extensions to Zikula 1.0. Any security updates to 0.7x modules will still be accepted in the repository.
From 1st January 2009
Official support for 0.7x will no longer be available. The extensions database and support forum will be archived, and new submissions will no longer be accepted.
On 1st July 2009
Official support for the 0.7x series of PostNuke ends on this date. Security fixes will no longer be provided, though it will still be possible to upgrade a 0.7x website to the latest version of Zikula. In addition, the download packages will be removed from trac and PostNuke 0.7x will only be available via checkout from SVN.
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Trac - NOC Replacement
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hard to maintain. We're hoping you'll find the trac installation easy to use and navigate, and an improved NOC in all respects.
From the perspective of third party developers, trac provides a useful administration interface from which you can administrate all aspects of your project, from it's description to SVN commits list and file downloads. Trac also has much better milestone and target tracking for bugs and releases.
As a user, you can search the available projects, and use the clean navigation to find your way around. There's also an online SVN browser where you'll be able to look at a project's source code.
Chris is looking to begin converting projects over from the NOC as soon as possible. On request, he can import tracker and SVN history, or alternatively you can start afresh. He'd like to talk to people as he makes the conversion so that if anyone's missing something useful, or has suggestions he can improve the Trac installation for everyone.
Looking to the future, we'll convert the core PostNuke project over to Trac. We'll also try to get single sign on between community.postnuke.com and Trac working if possible.
If you are a third party developer, be aware that we are planning to close the NOC in the future. If you have active projects
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