Geeklog vs. LifeType vs. Serendipity vs. dasBlog

General Features Geeklog LifeType Serendipity dasBlog
Version
1.8.2
1.2.6
1.1
2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
Release Date
30 Dez 2012
2008-02-01 (18 years ago)
2006-12-28 (19 years ago)
2007-08-14 (19 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
2020-02-05 (6 years ago)
Author
Geeklog Team
The LifeType Project
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU version 2
GPL
BSD
BSD License
License Cost/ Fee
none
0
0
Free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Multi-Site Deployment
Optional
Yes
Yes
Optional
System Requirements Geeklog LifeType Serendipity dasBlog
Programming Language
php
PHP
PHP
asp.net 2.0
Operating System
any
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Any Windows IIS platform
Webserver
any
Apache, IIS
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
IIS 4.0+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Other Requirements
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
IIS process account write access to web folder
Datastorage Geeklog LifeType Serendipity dasBlog
Text Files
No
No
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Yes
No
Oracle
No
No
No
No
SQLite
No
No
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
MS SQL Server
Yes
No
No
No
Other
no
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Structured XML data store
Anti-Spam Geeklog LifeType Serendipity dasBlog
Akismet Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Word Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
IP Ban List
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
BadBehavior, Spam-X Plugins
BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
User Access Features Geeklog LifeType Serendipity dasBlog
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
No
No
No
Yes
LDAP Authentication
Yes
No
Plugin
Unknown
Other Authentication
The so-called "user data providers" allow LifeType to access user data from other sources transparently, be it an external application or an LDAP or ActiveDirectory directory
Vista CardSpace pending
Support Geeklog LifeType Serendipity dasBlog
Commercial Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Online Help
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
http://wiki.lifetype.net
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://dasblog.info/
Issue Tracker
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
http://bugs.lifetype.net
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
Books
1
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features Geeklog LifeType Serendipity dasBlog
Categorization
Single
Single
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Trackback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Protected Posts
Optional
Plugin
Yes
No
Blog by Email
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
Plugin
No
No
Blog API
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
MovableType, Blogger
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
Post Editing Geeklog LifeType Serendipity dasBlog
Multi-paged posts
Yes
No
Yes
No
Spell Checker
No
No
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Optional
Yes
Optional
Yes
Undo
No
Yes
Optional
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comment Features Geeklog LifeType Serendipity dasBlog
Comment Layout
Threaded
Threaded
Threaded
Flat
Feeds for Comments
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Gravatars
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Open-ID Support
Client + Server
Client
None
None
Extended Features Geeklog LifeType Serendipity dasBlog
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
No
Search Engine
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Google Sitemap
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Workflow Geeklog LifeType Serendipity dasBlog
Content Approval
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Versioning
No
No
Yes
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Geeklog LifeType Serendipity dasBlog
Content Import
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
BlogML pending
Content Export
Dump to RSS, Database export
BlogML pending
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
No
No
No
HTML Output
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.1
HTML 4
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Geeklog LifeType Serendipity dasBlog
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
Yes
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Geeklog LifeType Serendipity dasBlog
RSS 0.9x
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Geeklog LifeType Serendipity dasBlog
Podcast Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
ID3-Tag Editor
Unknown
No
Yes
No
YouTube Support
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Media Converter
Unknown
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Unknown
No
Plugin
No
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