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http://www.plainblack.com/webgui

Every other week some idiot is telling us the internet is going to die soon.

I think the difference between KDE and Gnome can be explained sufficiently well by two screenshots, taken from random places on the web.

Copying a CD with KDE

Copying a CD with Gnome

I don't see much explanatory value in talk about "power users". That I am an expert on speech recognisers does not make me want to manipulate zillions of settings when I'm burning a CD. I have better things to do. KDE is not the desktop of choice for "power users", but for people with too much time on their hands.

Come to think of it, that's exactly the psychological profile of the average Slashdot reader!

I think the difference between KDE and Gnome can be explained sufficiently well by two screenshots, taken from random places on the web.

Copying a CD with KDE

Copying a CD with Gnome

I don't see much explanatory value in talk about "power users". That I am an expert on speech recognisers does not make me want to manipulate zillions of settings when I'm burning a CD. I have better things to do. KDE is not the desktop of choice for "power users", but for people with too much time on their hands.

Come to think of it, that's exactly the psychological profile of the average Slashdot reader!

Purple Octopus named Gooey. Seriously.

http://www.plainblack.com/mascot

I once burned a cd containing what turned out to be only half of a friend's home directory. After that, I became extremely paranoid about verifying burned data, and that paranoia has saved me extra work (although not on the order of the original event) since then.

Since k3b has gone 1.0 recently, tell me if my add to bug 77432 is overly paranoid?

Check out WebGUI.

It's open source, configurable, easy to maintain, and easy to learn.

Since then, we have K3B and the new Gnome whatchamacallit, that both do the same thing, better, support more formats, and are not hindered by little things like CSS.... Sooo, how seriously can they be taking this product?

I haven't seen this mentioned yet. WebGUI has it all - it's very easy to use and also very flexible. You can give different groups the ability to update their own sets of pages. There's a huge set of contributors and a very active forum. They also have an excellent demo.

I haven't seen this mentioned yet. WebGUI has it all - it's very easy to use and also very flexible. You can give different groups the ability to update their own sets of pages. There's a huge set of contributors and a very active forum. They also have an excellent demo.

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  as an aside, is it true as claimed that the standard linux distribution includes DVD burning software?

You say that the perl powerhouses are left out, but both Bricolage and WebGUI are included. The only big one that's missing is Slash.

We use an ajusted version of WebGUI in conjunction with our bookkeeping software Cash on our on-line shop.

It works quite well and we'll probably publish our changes to WebGUI on the dutch website about this beautifull Content Management System and Application Platform later this year.

Well, the K3b news page says 0.11.5 (mostly) fixes writer detection in 2.6.9 and up, though I'm not sure why 2.6.8 isn't included there.

Kernel 2.6.8 has effectively killed non root users from burning CDs and DVDs.

Then concentrate on layout, but in the first place:
Make shure you have the fsck**g content for the site.
Then go back to refining the layout.

The backend should never take two whole manmonths for a single customer.
No wonder you have bitching customers.

I have been using a MySQL / Perl solution called WebGUI for quite a while
now. It is a full CMS system that is truly open source and cross
platform, running on *nix, Windows and MacOS.

It truly is powerful yet very easy to use. Plenty of features such as Submissions system, Bulletin Board, Calendar, Syndicated Content and much more.

If you are looking for such a solution, feel free to give it a try.

try WebGUI from plainblack. While in some places it is still rough around the edges, it is very flexible and has a nice core feature set. I consider it the "mysql" of CMS. Just the right functionality. OSS at no additional charge ;).

It is written in Perl, is modular, and completely templatized. There is not much you can't do with it out-of-box with a little imagination.

Its only real down sides are limited e-commerce support, and it can be difficult to setup initially. For the faint-of-heart, they offer hosted CMS using WebGUI for $35.00 per month (shell account included).

The documentation requires a fairly broad background to put all the pieces together... but it does have a book and online help. It's default setup could use some improvement to really demonstrate the power of the software.

No. I don't work for them. Just a fan/contributor. What drew me to it was the ease of use, architecture, and the decent support for per-page SEO (IE ability to specify metatags on per page basis).

WebGUI has cross-platform WYSIWYG and is cool enough to allow you to "plug-in" multiple WYSIWYG editors. Users can select which WYSIWYG editor they want to use by default in their profiles.

It's 2004, people. Cross-platform WYSIWYG editing should be the standard, not exception. If your CMS isn't flexible enough to handle multiple editing plugins you should examine your architecture (not that I'm accusing Sitellite of anything. I know nothing of your CMS. )

Check out WebGUI. You can learn quite a bit from it- it's by far the most trainable and "mere-mortal" friendly CMS I've seen. It has an excellent development roadmap as well.

It has commercial support, a very large user base and an active developer base.

WebGUI has cross-platform WYSIWYG and is cool enough to allow you to "plug-in" multiple WYSIWYG editors. Users can select which WYSIWYG editor they want to use by default in their profiles.

It's 2004, people. Cross-platform WYSIWYG editing should be the standard, not exception. If your CMS isn't flexible enough to handle multiple editing plugins you should examine your architecture (not that I'm accusing Sitellite of anything. I know nothing of your CMS. )

Check out WebGUI. You can learn quite a bit from it- it's by far the most trainable and "mere-mortal" friendly CMS I've seen. It has an excellent development roadmap as well.

It has commercial support, a very large user base and an active developer base.

As a college student, I feel proud to say I've access to a quad-Xeon SCSI machine; this bad thing truly burns.

I run WebGUI on this machine, which recieves some 3 and a quarter million hits per month. Nothing to raise the eye brows at; but check it: on this machine the average uptime value is some 0.80. My personal (p3) machine, running a BBS, mail, bittorent, and web service maintains a constant 1.3+.

I've guaged the importance of SCSI drives in the equation via a (sadly) messy, but soon to be SourceForged Perl program. The result, confirming that which I've heard repeatedly, is that SCSI drives truly make the difference.

tallgreen.com Recent startup, still relativly small, Provide Open Source CMS hosting using WebGUI (cms), Communigate (email) AWStats (stats), Resin and other open source software. No VC, No debt, No CTO, Low overhead and primarily service based. It doesn't take much to start a small company and grow. Know your market, find ways to reduce costs, provide good products/services.

I use WebGUI from PlainBlack Software. It uses Perl/MySQL/Apache.

It is OpenSource, and very easy to use. It has WYSIWYG for those that don't know how to cut/paste. I suggest anyone looking at a CMS to take a look. It isn't perfect, but none really are.

I use WebGUI from PlainBlack Software. It uses Perl/MySQL/Apache.

It is OpenSource, and very easy to use. It has WYSIWYG for those that don't know how to cut/paste. I suggest anyone looking at a CMS to take a look. It isn't perfect, but none really are.

I would agree with the above post. Take a step back, and rather than deciding which weblog to use, ask yourself if a weblog is what you really need.

A general-purpose open source CMS, such as WebGUI - check out the demo, it's nice - can be used as a weblog, but you can also provide the ability for certain people to create new pages, drop widgets on these pages (calendars, discussion forums, versioned document repositories, tables from databases, etc). Depending on what your needs are, you may find a weblog too inflexible.

Another type of application to consider is a portal. An example is Metadot, which has a large library of widgets to choose from, and can also extend the page design to the users, who can choose the widgets they would like to appear on their own page (like a my.yahoo.com).

I would agree with the above post. Take a step back, and rather than deciding which weblog to use, ask yourself if a weblog is what you really need.

A general-purpose open source CMS, such as WebGUI - check out the demo, it's nice - can be used as a weblog, but you can also provide the ability for certain people to create new pages, drop widgets on these pages (calendars, discussion forums, versioned document repositories, tables from databases, etc). Depending on what your needs are, you may find a weblog too inflexible.

Another type of application to consider is a portal. An example is Metadot, which has a large library of widgets to choose from, and can also extend the page design to the users, who can choose the widgets they would like to appear on their own page (like a my.yahoo.com).

I work at a Fortune 500 company in the US and this article called Why Open Source? really helped me convince my bosses.

(First off, I'm a big TightVNC user and I need to thank you for such an awesome program.)

I think Wiki's are a good way for gathering information - but it is not a total replacement for documentation. Another cool project that uses a free form wiki extremely well is POE (no direct link to protect it), but good consise documentation is still an elusive goal. I've experimented with twiki, which I like alot, but in my workplace I need more controlable structure so I'm going the more formal CMS route instead. In particular I like webgui, which seems to be a nice balance between total wiki anarchy and stalin-like control. Note however, that I have a particular affinty for Perl language products in this regard.

I like WebGUI better since it is based on perl, well mod_perl actually. That and the fact that I know perl and don't know python.

WebGUI is built for end user usability and for letting the tech people get back to the tech part.

It is really feature rich and contains:

• Flexible styling using built in macro's and HTML::Template.
• Survey creation with no programming required (very cool!!)
• Internationalisation (so you can get it in Dutch, German, Chinese, etc.)
• Built in discussion method's
• Built in calendar
• Built in image gallery
• Built in e-mail forms

There is also open support for WebGUI that can be found here.

Last time it was mentioned on /. the mysql daemon fell under the heavy load, but if you want to try it right now (and it's slashdotted) you can always go to sourceforge.

-- Rod

I've heard about several 'put perl into HTML' tools now like ASP with perl and embperl but I never seem to like it.

I'm now actively involved in WebGUI (a content management system / application server) and we are looking for a templating system to allow for easy costumisation of the display our 'applications'

It just seems a lot more easy to embed HTML into perl than the other way round. Or maybe I should read this book?

I tend to think that Mason is trying to be php with the easy integration of all those nice perl modules. I'm not sure that is the best way.