Geeklog vs. Jlog vs. LifeType vs. NucleusCMS vs. PSG vs. Serendipity vs. typo

General Features Geeklog Jlog LifeType NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity typo
Version
1.8.2
1.0.2
1.2.6
3.24
1.12.0
1.1
4.1.1
Release Date
30 Dez 2012
2007-01-08 (17 years ago)
2008-01-31 (16 years ago)
2006-11-10 (17 years ago)
2006-08-22 (17 years ago)
2006-12-27 (17 years ago)
2007-05-07 (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)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
2020-02-05 (4 years ago)
Author
Geeklog Team
Jeena Paradies / team
The LifeType Project
Wouter Demuynck and others
The PSG Team
Garvin Hicking, Jannis Hermanns et al
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GNU version 2
GPL 2
GPL
GPL
GPL
BSD
MIT
License Cost/ Fee
none
0
free
Free
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Interface Languages
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
German, English, French, Romanian
Multi-User Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Multi-Site Deployment
Optional
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
System Requirements Geeklog Jlog LifeType NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity typo
Programming Language
php
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
PHP
Ruby on Rails
Operating System
any
Linux, Windows, Solaris, Mac OS X
Linux, Windows, UNIX
Any
Windows, Linux, Mac, Unix, others
All
Webserver
any
Apache, IIS
Apache with PHP
Any
Anything with PHP (Apache, Lighttpd, IIS)
Apache, Lighttpd, Mongrel, ...
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Other Requirements
PHP 5.2.0 or higher, MySQL 4.1.2 or higher
None
Database (PostgreSQL, MySQL) or PHP5 (SQLite)
Ruby
Datastorage Geeklog Jlog LifeType NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity typo
Text Files
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
SQLite
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
MS SQL Server
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
Other
no
New DB layers can be created easily, if the target DB supports ANSI-SQL
Anti-Spam Geeklog Jlog LifeType NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity typo
Akismet Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Word Blacklist
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
IP Ban List
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Unknown
CAPTCHA
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
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
SpamBayes, MBL
Moderation, link condom
URL checks, Author name checks, remote HTML link checks,
User Access Features Geeklog Jlog LifeType NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity typo
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Audit Log
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
LDAP Authentication
Yes
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
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
You can write your own auth plugin
Support Geeklog Jlog LifeType NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity typo
Commercial Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Online Help
http://www.geeklog.net/docs/
http://wiki.lifetype.net
http://faq.nucleuscms.org/
http://www.s9y.org/33.html
http://trac.typosphere.org/wiki/TroubleShooting
Issue Tracker
http://project.geeklog.net/tracker/?atid=105&group_id=6&func=browse
http://jeenaparadies.net/projects/jlog/report
http://bugs.lifetype.net
http://dev.nucleuscms.org/tracker/
http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=psg
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=542822&group_id=75065&func=browse
http://trac.typosphere.org/report
Books
1
None
None
1
None
None
None
Support Forum
Mailing List
IRC-Channel
#geeklog at irc.freenode.net
Blogging Features Geeklog Jlog LifeType NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity typo
Categorization
Single
Multiple
Single
Single
None
Multiple
Multiple
Tags
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Archiving
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trackback
Send+Receive
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Pingback
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
No
No
No
Send+Receive
Send+Receive
Ping Service Support
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Yes
Link- / Blogroll
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Protected Posts
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Blog by Email
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Blog by SMS/MMS
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
No
Blog API
Atom, Blogger XMLRPC, metaWeblog, Movable Type
Blogger, metaWeblog and MovableType XML-RPC API
MovableType, Blogger
Blogger, MetaWeblog, MovableType
Post Editing Geeklog Jlog LifeType NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity typo
Multi-paged posts
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Spell Checker
No
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editor
Optional
No
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Optional
Undo
No
No
Yes
No
No
Optional
Unknown
Syntax Highlighting
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
File Upload
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Asset Management
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Emoticon Images
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
No
Comment Features Geeklog Jlog LifeType NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity typo
Comment Layout
Threaded
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Flat
Threaded
Flat
Feeds for Comments
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
E-Mail on Followup
No
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Gravatars
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Open-ID Support
Client + Server
None
Client
None
None
None
None
Extended Features Geeklog Jlog LifeType NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity typo
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Photo Gallery
Plugin
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Polls / Surveys
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Search Engine
Optional
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Custom Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Google Sitemap
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Workflow Geeklog Jlog LifeType NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity typo
Content Approval
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Optional
Unknown
Versioning
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Article Publishing
scheduled
simple
scheduled
scheduled
simple
scheduled
simple
Comment Moderation Queue
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Interoperability Geeklog Jlog LifeType NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity typo
Content Import
yes
WordPress, Textpattern, Moveable Type, bblog, ...
MovableType 3.x, WordPress 1.5x/2.x, Serendipity, TextPattern 1.x, RSS 0.2/0.9/2.0, Atom
Content Export
RSS
backup to SQL
Dump to RSS, Database export
RSS, Atom
Unicode Support
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
WebDAV Support
Unknown
No
No
No
No
No
No
HTML Output
HTML 4
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.0 Strict
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 1.0 Strict
Friendly URLs
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Administration Geeklog Jlog LifeType NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity typo
E-Mail Notifications
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes / Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Trash
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
Web Statistics
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Web-based Style / Template Management
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Comment Administration
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syndication Geeklog Jlog LifeType NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity typo
RSS 0.9x
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
RSS 1.0
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
RSS 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM 0.3
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
ATOM 1.0
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Podcasting/Videocasting Geeklog Jlog LifeType NucleusCMS PSG Serendipity typo
Podcast Feeds
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
No
ID3-Tag Editor
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
YouTube Support
Unknown
No
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Converter
Unknown
No
No
No
No
No
No
Phone2Podcast Support
Unknown
No
No
No
No
Plugin
No
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