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NucleusCMS:
http://www.nucleuscms.org/
540 kb of 'pure publishing'.

Not that I have to rationalize my actions to your condescending tone, but I had been using a modified version of Nucleus. I modified it myself to fit my own needs for account creation and management, and comment creation. I also modified it to add a few other features such as a slashdot like poll for fun and also a login mechanism that redirected you to my main url to login and then back to hte page you were browsing to give you the ability to fill out a small form on the current page and click a button and you'd be immediately logged in. The problem was that my digital certificate was for my www domain and I had a few blogs running on other domains so I needed to redirect to the first domain, create a cookie with the proper login info, and then redirect you back to the page you were looking at. All of this required a few hours of coding and testing. Which means to upgrade I'd have to go back through all the code again and figure out what I modified and all that. The reason was that between the version that I used and the next version Nucleus went through a code overhaul that changed quite a bit of stuff internally. It should be noted of course that the code overhaul was done thanks mostly to the Nucleus community complaining that it didn't have enough support against comment spam, which at the time of my site shutdown was just reaching fever pitch. I helped contribute some ideas that were for the most part rejected, but at least stimultated discussion.

Anyways, it got away from me and I had other pressing interests such as school, work, and my Master's Thesis, plus being married didn't help much either. Looking at your "Yahoo hosted" account and the blog that you link to there, it's obvious you were not as successful at getting rid of spam as you said you were.

I use Nucleus. I've set it up for 4 blogs for myself and friends and have had no problems. It's easy to use, has lots of templates/skins, lots of plugins for customizaiton, and best of all it's free.

A couple of questions.. anyone have stats out there on which is the most popular OSS blog software? There don't seem to be many comparisons on the web. I've been considering trying some new software but I don't want to waste time with one that doesn't have a good community behind it.

Link: Nucleus Homepage

besides WP, Nucleus is also a good blogging tool, easy to use and its secure. I use this and WP, both are nice. Also I was getting a lot of comment spam using WP, but I turned off letting other sites know when I update and the online casion spam stopped.

Yet another CMS/blogging piece of software that noone mentioned is Nucleus CMS. It's a GPLed piece of PHP software that works with MySQL and provides the usual array of functionality. It has a very flexible template system which is skinnable too. It also has a variety of plugins, which can extend the functionality even further. All usual stuff is supported - RSS, comment control, antispam, weahter, and blah blah blah.

A couple of month ago I've migrated from to it from a homemade halfbaked script that I used and I am a happy man. But I don't need much, so you better check it out for yourself. :)

A merit of http://www.opensourcecms.com/ is the
categorization : it's important to distinguish generic ("portal") CMSs from just weblogs engines,
and other variants. Though -of course- there's no clear cut-off.

I've been making some research recently.
I wanted an open weblog engine (perhaps with some light cms features), in php+mysql (for ubiquitousness), with good internals (decent code and developer docs).

Among the heavyweigth CMSs -escaping from the horrible mess of PhpNuke and sons- I looked at Mambo, Xaraya and XOOPS ; all of them are really interesting; but too complex beasts for my needs.

Drupal (a generic CMS with weblog included) deserves consideration: nice developer docs, carefully organized coding base and very active. But I dont like the concepts it uses ("nodes","taxonomy"), the templating strategy and the focus in general (a CMS too abstract, I feel).

On the other side, on the KISS weblogs engines, Wordpress has gained a lot of attention. And I liked it overall.
BUT: the code is rather immature and poorly organized and the docs are terrible. Lots of poor software design choices, both at maintainability and performance aspects(yes, guys; I know it's just PHP, but even then... lots of globals, nearly no classes, plugins bad integrated, etc)

I finally choose Nucleus. It beats WP largely in software design and documentation. A minus: it's weak activity (compared with wp and others): a year from the last stable release (2.0). But it's alive, has a decent forum, 3.0RC released this month; and going in the good direction IMHO.

b2evo This is what I would recommend people check out first.
BBlog (requires PHP version 4.1 or greater & MySQL version 3.23 or greater)
Bit 5 Blog
blosxom (only need ability to run CGI scripts)
drupal.org (mySQL or similar required)
LiveJournal.org
MyPHPblog/Simplog (seems to require MySQL would have to download to be sure.)
Nucleus (requires PHP version 4.0.6 or higher and access to a MySQL database version 3.23.38 or higher)
Pivot (only php required)
pLog (requires PHP 4.1.x or higher and MySQL 3.1.x or higher)
Scoop (requires Apache with mod_perl and mySQL)
TikiWiki (requires PHP 4.1+ and MySQL. Very powerful software.)
WordPress (requires PHP version 4.1 or greater and MySQL version 3.23.23 or greater.)

And no one mentioning another one called Nucleus? It's GPL as well.8) I have been using it since last Oct, it's very stable, tons on plugins available.

great for blogs, great for news, great for articles... Give it a try!

Nucleus