Free Software Magazine: Free Software Technology Review--December

Dec 21, 2005, 13:00 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Martin Brown)

[ Thanks to Dave Guard for this link. ]

"As far as hosting services are concerned, WordPress is a good example. At its heart, WordPress is a simple blogging application, and it can be used as such, but behind the basics of the ability to blog comes an array of powerful features and the ability to extend the functionality of your blog through the use of various plug-ins.

"WordPress is based around at least two of the main components of the LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) stack, and more usually in the case of many hosting services all four. The two primary components are MySQL (used to store blog information) and PHP. Both MySQL and PHP are regularly supported as options by hosting services, so supporting an application based on these two components is quite straightforward..."

Complete Story

Related Stories:

• Linux Journal: Searching the World Live Web(Sep 20, 2005)
• ZDNet: Paul Graham on Open Source and Blogging(Aug 04, 2005)
• Linux, Unix, /etc/: Unix Weblog Hacks(Aug 02, 2005)