Yes, still very much around.

I use it daily for most of my networking tasks. I use it running as a VM as a virtual router and IPSEC tunnel endpoint as it uses so few resources, so small and compact to install, and it's IPSEC configuration is so much easier than many others.

e.g. https://www.quernus.co.uk/2015...

-Matt

...or just use something that was designed better in the first place, and ore secure by default... like Plone.

-Matt

Cubic inches?! So this isn't a project intended to be looking beyond the borders of one country?

-Matt

None. No, seriously, None. As a python programmer for 15 years, I've never had a bug caused by indentation changing the logic. Python code is usually succinct enough with small enough methods that things like that are immediately obvious. If you have more than a couple of levels on indentation in your code, you are doing it wrong.

-Matt

This is the use case I have too. I've messed with touch screen displays and switches and the likes. But a cheap tablet would make a great display for some of my arduino projects.

So, I'd like to know if you can install android on it or compile an app to run on it that can do a simple full screen kiosk mode and have buttons and the likes.

Has it changed in 9 years? Yes of course. Several major versions since then. There is a new content-type system, new theming system, and new UI.

Check out the recently released Plone 5 which has lots of great stuff in it.

https://plone.com/5

-Matt

Just switch to Plone and sleep easier at night. A little out of date figures, but in the time Joomla had 441 exploits, Plone had 9.

https://plone.org/products/plo...

-Matt

No.

e = mv^2.

-Matt

Why use Linux when you could use OpenBSD? We've been running OpenBSD routers for quite some time now and their networking is far better, consistent and more robust than in Linux. Just having PF alone is reason enough to use OpenBSD.

-Matt

And cia.gov and fbi.gov run on Plone... your point is?

OK, so I'm slightly biased in that I run a company that does predominantly Plone development, but one of our biggest clients uses Confluence to actually project manage the Plone project we are developing for them. So in effect we use both, for different sides of the same coin.

Confluence is quite powerful, and some of the tools for previewing MS Office documents in your browser are pretty good. However where Plone shines is its flexibility. We use Plone ourselves for our own intranet and the great thing is it goes well beyond just storing documents:

* It shows a list of all latest SVN commits from our repository
* There is a shared calendar with SMS alerts, iCal integration, etc
* It integrates with our time tracking software to produce time tracking reports for each project
* There is a wiki on there for ad-hoc knowledge bits
* There is a directory of all our contacts with click-to-dial integration with our desk phones
* All our quotes are 'written' in Plone and converted to PDF to send to the client. It handles all the formatting via Apache FOP
* There are image galleries for both social company photos, and also library of screenshots for quotes, etc.
* Management dashboard with graphs of time spent in the past week on which projects

So whilst Confluence is pretty good, I think you'd be hard pressed to customise it quite to the extent where it really starts to deliver business value by integrating with your actual business processes and other software.

And just by co-incidence, fsf.org actually runs Plone itself.

Just do a search in the source of http://www.cia.gov/ for the word 'Plone' you will see it. They've been using it for at least the past 6 years now.

Ditto http://www.fbi.gov/

Plone's security is one of its major plus points compared to the myriad of PHP systems.

-Matt

Glib as you might be, you are almost close.... ;)

Plone is named after the experimental electronica music band, Plone from Birmingham. Known for their simple, clean sound. And they had a track called 'Plock' ;)

-Matt

If you are a python developer, or at least have python2.6 installed on your system, then check out this lightning talk screencast I did for Europython last week:

Screencast of installing Plone 4

I go from a base python2.6 installed to an installed and running Plone instance in under 3 minutes. Admittedly I had a local egg cache due to the flaky conference wifi, but if you did this without a cache it would do the same, just take a bit longer downloading all of the eggs.

Plone really is the easiest CMS I've ever worked with in terms of deployment and installation (mainly due to the fantastic zc.buildout system). There are also the binary installers for various platforms as well, which will get you up and running in about 15 minutes with just a few clicks.

-Matt