Date: 05/18/05 (Web Development)    Keywords: software, web, linux

I'm looking for recommendations for blog software (e.g. Movable Type, pMachine's ExpressionEngine, WordPress) for my personal website.

The site's quite low volume (friends & family kind of thing) and there will probably only be a couple of contributors (unless the cats learn to type), so I'm looking for something lightweight, simple/quick to setup and, of course, free.

My wife's thinking about using it semi-professionally too - mainly for writing reviews - and I've been toying with a similar idea for my pro site, so we don't want to use something that's overtly advert-ridden. Maybe we need to have multiple instances of the blog software, one for each purpose, to keep things separate?

I like the idea of categorising entries, although I think every product does that these days, and incorporating a news aggregator (I've only looked at NewsGator so far). We already use Gallery for our photos, so incorporating that in some way would be nice, although it's easy enough to just link to it.

I administer our Linux (Fedora) server so any extra services needed to support the blog s/w won't be a problem.

What would you recommend?

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