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OS History   (Content)

The father of the movement Richard Stallman, founded the FSF in 1984 and from this cause Open Source was born. Open Source Software (OSS) and the FSF movements are different but are not unlike two political parties in the development community. The OSS was founded, in 1998, specifically to temper or modify these idealistic philosophies of the Free Software movement. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html for more explanation of the difference between the two movements.

The basic philosophy behind open source is very simple: When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves. People improve it, people adapt it, and people fix the bugs. And this can happen at a speed that, if one is used to the slow pace of conventional software development, seems astonishing.

There are many active Open Source Software projects but some may be thinking you get what you pay for, so if it's free there must be something wrong with it. Sometimes this is true but there are open source software projects providing stable, scalable applications. The key is to know where to look and what to look for when evaluating the stability and scalability.

Here are a few interesting facts and examples of Open Source projects:

Apache is the number one web server at nearly 62% of all installations. Second place was help by Microsoft at just under 27%. (Source: Netcraft)
GNU/Linux is the number two operating system at nearly 30% of all servers behind Microsoft operating system at nearly 50%. (Source: Netcraft)

Sendmail (a mail transport agent) sendmail has become one of the standards of the Internet's infrastructure (TCP/IP, Apache, sendmail).

BIND the Berkley Internet Naming Daemon responsible for mapping domain names to IP addresses ran on 95% of all public reverse DNS servers. (Source: Information Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California).
MySQL founded in 1995 by two open source veterans, Michael "Monty" Widenius and David Axmark, with the help of Allan Larsson and claims 4 million installations worldwide and 30,000 downloads of the software per day making MySQL by far the planet's most widely distributed open-source database. (Source: mySQL)

PHP is a widely used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML and as of May 2003 it was being used on 12,487,030 domains and 1,321,203 IP addresses. (Source: PHP)

Linux Operating System is over three years old and has grabbed 13.7 percent of the $50.9 billion market for server computers, and that figure is expected to jump to 25.2 percent in 2006, putting Linux in the No. 2 position. (Source: IDC)

SourceForge a site providing support tools and resources for the OSS/Free Software movement recently announced a major two year milestone of having more than a half million registered users, as well as a site record of nearly 63,000 registered projects. This is amazing growth of 25,000 new users per month.

Generated on February 27, 2009.

Support   (Content)

Since PostNuke has reached the End of Life we no longer offer a PostNuke support through community forums which is where the majority of support was carried out. 
PostNuke is no longer maintained so we strongly suggest migrating to Zikula. Most people have migrated from away from PostNuke to Zikula (see "The End").

Generated on February 1, 2009.

Pricing   (Content)

PostNuke is free to download and use for both commercial and non-commercial use. It is licensed under the GNU/GPL version 2 license. The GPL allows you to modify the code without restrictions ensuring you can customize it to fit your project requirements. You can also redistribute your work, with the understanding credit must be given to the original authors and that you must also license the new modified code as GPL. At no time are you permitted to change the license terms.

The GPL license ensures you have full access to the source code. This gives peace of mind about security since nothing is hidden in the code. It improves security since there is no need to reverse engineer the code to find potential security issues, in fact this open-ness enables world wide peer review. Lastly it makes it easy for anyone to modify or tweak the software to their own particular requirement.

Generated on February 1, 2009.

The End   (Content)

PostNuke started officially in the summer of 2001.  After several years of development the PostNuke came to an official end in 2008.  The software was always meant to be the stepping stone to better things, namely the "Adam Baum" project which was originally based on a PostNuke version but soon forked in a totally different direction under development for a few years.  
The fruits of the Adam Baum prokect were released as a new product called Zikula. Efforts have been made to make a migration path to the new product although not all modules and extension are compatible and the migration process can be rather difficult.  For details about the migration package, please see the migration release.
Zikula should not be confused with PostNuke since they are spearate products and the underlying code is vastly different. A decision was made to provide security updates for PostNuke until 1st July 2009 and there will be no more releases of PostNuke beyond version 0.764.  If security issues are found it is suggested you discontinue use of PostNuke and migrate.  If you require professional support doing this you may contact us.
The End.
 

Generated on February 1, 2009.

History   (Content)

The PostNuke project was started in July 2001 and grew out of the frustration of four guys not being able to contribute to the development of another open source project.
PostNuke was the first open source project to provide a sourceforge type free hosting service to third party developers we nicknamed the NOC (Network Operations Center).
 

Generated on February 1, 2009.

Open Source   (Content)

The definition according to the Open Software Initiative is "Software where the source code (the language in which the program is written) is freely distributed with the right to modify the code, and on the condition redistribution is not restricted, and indeed is obtainable for no more than the reasonable cost of reproduction." As opposed to proprietary software that provides you with executable binary code only, not the human readable source code it is derived from.
Another variation of the definition by The Free Software Foundation (FSF) refers to "free software" rather than Open Source Software. The FSF's definition stresses "free software is a matter of liberty, not price.' In this context, "free" means "freedom" as in free speech, not free as in "free beer'. Some might be asking, "What's the catch"? And you remember what your mom told you, if it's too good to be true, it must not be true. But in this case, it's true, if you find a software product that meets your needs, there isn't a catch, it really is FREE. The only possibly issue is misunderstanding the term "free." The GPL includes this text: "When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price." which means the software is not necessarily cost-free and considering the alternatives of proprietary software, it's still a bargain.

Generated on January 31, 2009.

Download   (Content)

Development has stopped on PostNuke and it is no longer recommended for use due to many security issues.  Please read "The End".
Downloads are no longer available

Generated on January 30, 2009.

About   (Content)

PostNuke is software that creates an impressive, dynamic web site and provides the webmaster with a site they can administer with a minimal amount of HTML knowledge through a web browser.

But, PostNuke's functionality can be increased by installing modules, blocks and themes. For example, you can add a forum, a gallery and contact form. You can also change how your entire site looks by changing themes. All of this can be done with just a few clicks in the administration panel saving you hours of time, both in the initial creation of the website and in its day to day maintenance.

PostNuke can do anything from traditional blog websites, to a community members' only website with hundreds of users. PostNuke can scale to thousands of uses but is just as easy to create a small website for friends and family.

Generated on January 30, 2009.

Welcome to Zikula   (Admin_Messages)

Zikula is a weblog/content management system (CMS). It is far more secure and stable than competing products, and is able to work in high-volume environments with ease.
Some of the key features of Zikula are:

customization of all aspects of the web site's appearance through themes, with support for CSS stylesheets
the ability to specify items as being suitable for either a single language or for all languages
the best guarantee of properly displaying your web pages in all browsers, thanks to full compliance with W3C HTML standards
a standard API (application programming interface) and extensive documentation to allow for easy extension of your web site's functionality through modules and blocks.

Zikula has a very active developer and support community at zikula.org.
We hope you will enjoy using Zikula.The Zikula development team
Note: you can edit or remove this message by going to the Administration page and clicking on the 'Administration messages' entry

Generated on December 20, 2008.

0.7x End Of Life   (News)

From 1st October 2008
PostNuke 0.7x will only be available as a download package from code.zikula.org. New modules and themes for the .7x series will no longer be accepted into the Extensions repository after this date, and devlopers are encouraged to convert their extensions to Zikula 1.0. Any security updates to 0.7x modules will still be accepted in the repository.

From 1st January 2009
Official support for 0.7x will no longer be available. The extensions database and support forum will be archived, and new submissions will no longer be accepted.

On 1st July 2009
Official support for the 0.7x series of PostNuke ends on this date. Security fixes will no longer be provided, though it will still be possible to upgrade a 0.7x website to the latest version of Zikula. In addition, the download packages will be removed from trac and PostNuke 0.7x will only be available via checkout from SVN.

Generated on June 6, 2008.

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