General Features | b2evolution | dasBlog | LifeType | typo |
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Version |
2.4
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2.0 (2.0.7226.0)
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1.2.6
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4.1.1
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Release Date |
2006-12-01 (17 years ago)
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2007-08-13 (17 years ago)
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2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
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2007-05-07 (17 years ago)
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Last Update here |
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
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Author |
Francois Planque / evoTeam
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Clemens Vasters/Scott Hanselman/Team
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The LifeType Project
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URL | ||||
Free and Open Source |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Yes
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License |
GPL
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BSD License
|
GPL
|
MIT
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License Cost/ Fee |
0 - Free
|
Free
|
0
|
0
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Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
|
Mature
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Interface Languages |
10
Danish, German, English, Finnish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish |
0
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0
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4
German, English, French, Romanian |
Multi-User Support |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Multi-Site Deployment |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
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System Requirements | b2evolution | dasBlog | LifeType | typo |
Programming Language |
PHP
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asp.net 2.0
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PHP
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Ruby on Rails
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Operating System |
Linux, Windows or other
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Any Windows IIS platform
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Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
|
All
|
Webserver |
Apache, IIS or other
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IIS 4.0+
|
Apache, IIS
|
Apache, Lighttpd, Mongrel, ...
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Root Access |
No
|
No
|
No
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Yes
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Other Requirements |
IIS process account write access to web folder
|
Ruby
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Datastorage | b2evolution | dasBlog | LifeType | typo |
Text Files |
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
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MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
PostgreSQL |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Oracle |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
SQLite |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
BerkeleyDB |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
MS SQL Server |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
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Other |
(must overload DB abstraction class)
|
Structured XML data store
|
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Anti-Spam | b2evolution | dasBlog | LifeType | typo |
Akismet Support |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Word Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
IP Ban List |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
CAPTCHA |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Other Anti-Spam mechanisms |
several specialized antispam plugins
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BadBehaviour, DNS Blacklists, Built-in Bayesian filter, auto-closing comments for old posts, hidden fields in comment input form
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User Access Features | b2evolution | dasBlog | LifeType | typo |
ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Audit Log |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
LDAP Authentication |
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
Other Authentication |
OpenID plugin
|
Vista CardSpace pending
|
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
|
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Support | b2evolution | dasBlog | LifeType | typo |
Commercial Support |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
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Online Help |
http://manual.b2evolution.net/
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http://dasblog.info/
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http://wiki.lifetype.net
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http://trac.typosphere.org/wiki/TroubleShooting
|
Issue Tracker |
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dasblogce
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http://bugs.lifetype.net
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http://trac.typosphere.org/report
|
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Books |
None
|
None
|
None
|
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Support Forum | ||||
Mailing List | ||||
IRC-Channel |
#b2evolution on irc.freenode.net
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Blogging Features | b2evolution | dasBlog | LifeType | typo |
Categorization |
Multiple
|
Multiple
|
Single
|
Multiple
|
Tags |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Archiving |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Trackback |
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Send+Receive
|
Pingback |
Send+Receive
|
No
|
Send+Receive
|
|
Ping Service Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Link- / Blogroll |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Protected Posts |
Yes
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Blog by Email |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Blog by SMS/MMS |
Unknown
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Blog API |
blogger, metweblog, atom, b2
|
metaWeblog API / Blogger XML-RPC API
|
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
|
Blogger, MetaWeblog, MovableType
|
Post Editing | b2evolution | dasBlog | LifeType | typo |
Multi-paged posts |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Spell Checker |
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
WYSIWYG Editor |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
Undo |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
File Upload |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Asset Management |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Emoticon Images |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Comment Features | b2evolution | dasBlog | LifeType | typo |
Comment Layout |
Flat
|
Flat
|
Threaded
|
Flat
|
Feeds for Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
E-Mail on Followup |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Gravatars |
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Open-ID Support |
Client
|
None
|
Client
|
None
|
Extended Features | b2evolution | dasBlog | LifeType | typo |
Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Photo Gallery |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Polls / Surveys |
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Search Engine |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Custom Pages |
Yes
|
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Google Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Workflow | b2evolution | dasBlog | LifeType | typo |
Content Approval |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Versioning |
No
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Article Publishing |
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
scheduled
|
simple
|
Comment Moderation Queue |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
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Interoperability | b2evolution | dasBlog | LifeType | typo |
Content Import |
WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger, LiveJournal, b2/Cafelog
|
BlogML pending
|
MovableType 3.x, WordPress 1.5x/2.x, Serendipity, TextPattern 1.x, RSS 0.2/0.9/2.0, Atom
|
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Content Export |
BlogML pending
|
RSS, Atom
|
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Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
WebDAV Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
HTML Output |
XHTML 1.0 Transitional
|
HTML 4
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
XHTML 1.0 Strict
|
Friendly URLs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Administration | b2evolution | dasBlog | LifeType | typo |
E-Mail Notifications |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Themes / Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Trash |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Web Statistics |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Web-based Style / Template Management |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Comment Administration |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Syndication | b2evolution | dasBlog | LifeType | typo |
RSS 0.9x |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
RSS 1.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
RSS 2.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
ATOM 0.3 |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
ATOM 1.0 |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Podcasting/Videocasting | b2evolution | dasBlog | LifeType | typo |
Podcast Feeds |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
ID3-Tag Editor |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
YouTube Support |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
Media Converter |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
Phone2Podcast Support |
Unknown
|
No
|
No
|
No
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