About
Tux CMS is a full-featured blogging engine that supports the simple creation of a personal blog or small- to medium-sized website. In addition to being fully-themeable, Tux CMS sports powerful features such as pages in addition to the blog page, a user system, blocks, and more.
Tux CMS is open source, written entirely in PHP and XHTML 1.1, and takes advantage of widely-accepted open protocols for content syndication, such as RSS.
Tux CMS and WordPress
Throughout the documentation, and in any development content posted during Tux CMS's development, you will undoubtedly find references to the open source blogging engine WordPress. Tux CMS is "based on" WordPress, but not actually based on WordPress. To clarify:
From an administrator/content author's perspective, Tux CMS is very closely related to WordPress. Many of the features are the same, interfaces use similar terminology when possible, and many of the content management concepts persist through Tux CMS.
From a developer's perspective, Tux CMS bears very little connection to WordPress. Only two small blocks of code from WordPress are actually used (a modified PHP function for closing open XML/HTML tags, and two CSS definition blocks for formatting input fields), and Tux CMS's content model of multi-dimensional arrays differs greatly from WordPress's object-oriented content model.
In short, WordPress provided inspiration for many of Tux CMS's features, but very little of WordPress's code is actually found in Tux CMS, and most of what is found is modified. The Tux CMS Project would like to express their sincere thanks to the WordPress development team for their excellent work on a top-notch blogging engine.