Do the Mambo

For the past few weeks, the Linux Magazine team has been deploying a new web site. And while the migration of old content to the new system is not yet complete, recent issues of the magazine and other new content are already available at http://www.linuxmagazine.com.

Our old site served us well, but it was time to move on to something better — and more modern. Since launching the magazine back in 1999, Tux left his rookery and become a full-fledged celebrity, attracting an entourage of open source languages and tools along the way. Today, if you want to cook up a custom web site, there are a plethora of Perl, Python, and PHP modules to code with. Or, if you want to leverage existing code and an active community, just a few minutes of searching reveals any number of open source content management systems, server monitoring packages, and web traffic analysis tools. In other words, it’s a buyer’s market, even if you have nothing to spend.

After looking at a number of choices, including custom development and a proprietary provider, we elected to use the Mambo Content Management System (http://www.mamboserver.com). Mambo is based on PHP and MySQL, has an active community of contributors and users, and its hardware requirements are not extravagant. Like many other polished PHP-based packages installation is a snap (done via the web), and customization is largely point-and-click. And, of course, Mambo is open source. The price…

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