b2evolution vs. Blogger vs. LifeType vs. Serendipity

General Features b2evolution Blogger LifeType Serendipity
Version
2.4
N/A
1.2.6
1.1
Release Date
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
N/A
2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
Francois Planque / evoTeam
Google Inc.
The LifeType Project
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
N/A
GPL
BSD
License Cost/ Fee
0 - Free
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish
0
0
0
Multi-User Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Hosting Features b2evolution Blogger LifeType Serendipity
Storage Quota
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
None
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
No
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
Yes
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No Spam, Hate Speech or Commercial Pornography
N/A
N/A
System Requirements b2evolution Blogger LifeType Serendipity
Programming Language
PHP
N/A
PHP
PHP
Operating System
Linux, Windows or other
N/A
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
Webserver
Apache, IIS or other
N/A
Apache, IIS
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Root Access
No
N/A
No
No
Other Requirements
N/A
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Datastorage b2evolution Blogger LifeType Serendipity
Text Files
No
N/A
No
No
MySQL
Yes
N/A
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
N/A
No
Yes
Oracle
No
N/A
No
No
SQLite
No
N/A
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
N/A
No
No
MS SQL Server
No
N/A
No
No
Other
(must overload DB abstraction class)
N/A
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam b2evolution Blogger LifeType Serendipity
Akismet Support
Plugin
N/A
Plugin
Yes
Word Blacklist
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
IP Ban List
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms
several specialized antispam plugins
Comments can be restricted to other Blogger users only
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 b2evolution Blogger LifeType Serendipity
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Audit Log
Yes
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Plugin
N/A
No
Plugin
Other Authentication
OpenID plugin
N/A
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
Support b2evolution Blogger LifeType Serendipity
Commercial Support
No
No
Yes
Yes
Online Help
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
http://help.blogger.com/
http://wiki.lifetype.net
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
Issue Tracker
http://knownissues.blogspot.com/
http://bugs.lifetype.net
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
Books
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features b2evolution Blogger LifeType Serendipity
Categorization
Multiple
None
Single
Multiple
Tags
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
No
No
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Protected Posts
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Blog by Email
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
No
Blog API
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
Blogger data API
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
MovableType, Blogger
Post Editing b2evolution Blogger LifeType Serendipity
Multi-paged posts
Yes
No
No
Yes
Spell Checker
Plugin
Yes
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editor
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Optional
Undo
No
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Comment Features b2evolution Blogger LifeType Serendipity
Comment Layout
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Threaded
Feeds for Comments
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
E-Mail on Followup
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Gravatars
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Open-ID Support
Client
None
Client
None
Extended Features b2evolution Blogger LifeType Serendipity
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Search Engine
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Google Sitemap
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Workflow b2evolution Blogger LifeType Serendipity
Content Approval
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Versioning
No
No
No
Yes
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
scheduled
scheduled
Comment Moderation Queue
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability b2evolution Blogger LifeType Serendipity
Content Import
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
none
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
Content Export
HTML via FTP/SFTP
Dump to RSS, Database export
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
No
No
No
HTML Output
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.1
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration b2evolution Blogger LifeType Serendipity
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
Yes
No
Yes
No
Web Statistics
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Web-based Style / Template Management
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication b2evolution Blogger LifeType Serendipity
RSS 0.9x
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 1.0
Yes
No
No
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting b2evolution Blogger LifeType Serendipity
Podcast Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
ID3-Tag Editor
Unknown
No
No
Yes
YouTube Support
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Media Converter
Unknown
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
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