Tux CMS

I know, I know, you've all been wondering: how exactly can I express my love for Tux CMS? Well, I've thought, and thought, and thought, and I think I've finally come up with a solution: Tux CMS T-shirts!

Starting now, at the glorious CaféPress.com, you may now choose from a variety of blogging-related t-shirts, featuring the Tux CMS penguin, and the URL across the shoulders on the back. Currently we only offer these shirts, but we eventually plan to have more (more shirt designs, buttons, magnets, mousepads, etc. and so on), so keep checking back! 

Tux CMS is nearing a beta stage, and after many weeks of work, should be available by the end of next week. In addition to the current work, I've prepared a series of documents that will pertain to some of the awesome new features that will appear in v0.2. These documents should be available online within a week or so as well in a private Subversion repository.

The big news today, though, is that you can try Tux CMS for yourself without downloading it! We have just setup a demo site, demo.blogwithtux.org, that automatically resets itself every hour, so you have completely free reign. It should say it on the home page, but if not, the username is "admin" and the password is "demosite" (provided someone hasn't changed it... if they have, it will be reset at the top of the hour, so check again later). Note also that an automated update from the Subversion repository is performed every night at midnight (Pacific Daylight Time, I believe), so you'll always know what you're using is the absolute latest. Of course, this can occasionally cause problems, so if you run into a bug, we ask that you report it to the Trac we'll be setting up shortly. Enjoy!

Well, we're pretty darn close to a usable beta. The code has changed a lot since the alpha, and I just recently completely redid the directory structure so that it now makes more sense (and is more apt to play nicely with other installed software: all files in the root directory, with the exception of the install dir, error.php, favicon.ico, index.php, and tb.php, are prefixed with "tux-". Expect a beta on the SourceForge site in about two weeks (to be safe).

Also, we recently migrated from CVS to Subversion (and I'm absolutely loving it ). To checkout the current development edition, do this:

svn co https://tuxcms.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tuxcms/trunk tuxcms

Or, for the last revision before the Subversion move:

svn co https://tuxcms.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tuxcms/tags/pre-svn/tuxcms tuxcms

Enjoy!

Hey all, welcome to the new home of Tux CMS, BlogWithTux.org.

We're kicking things off with a bang! Now available online is the first alpha of Tux CMS v0.1. You can download it at SourceForge's file release section. Currently it works with MySQL and PostgreSQL, and flat-file if you create the directory ahead of time (with the default settings, create a directory called 'localhost' in the root of your site). This behavior has been fixed in CVS, and the directory will now be created for you (note, however, that the Kubrick theme is not included in CVS, so you'll need to install that from one of the release packages).

Also, if you're curious, take a look at some screenshots of the installer when installing a flat-file driven site.

Anyway, welcome to the new site, and enjoy using Tux CMS!