By kbahey on
Today, I visited Ubuntu.com and found that they switched to Drupal 4.7.
Ubuntu is my favorite distro for both server (command line mode) and desktop use (GUI use).
The site looks really nice and visually appealing.
Today, I visited Ubuntu.com and found that they switched to Drupal 4.7.
Ubuntu is my favorite distro for both server (command line mode) and desktop use (GUI use).
The site looks really nice and visually appealing.
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Where is it indicated
How did you know the cms they use, and the version too ?
view source
View the HTML source! You will see the misc/drupal.css file included (and other fingerprints of typical Drupal generated HTML). Because drupal.css was removed in Drupal 5.0 and was only present in previous versions, they are surely not using Drupal 5.x or later. Probably it is not too hard to find something to fingerprint Drupal 4.7.x (as opposed to a previous version), but I think it is fairly safe to assume 4.7, given how long it is around now.
More explicit: CHANGELOG.txt
Yes, looking at the HTML source gives you clues for sure.
For example, this says they use CCK: /modules/cck/content.css
/misc/drupal.css says they are using 4.7 or earlier.
/themes/something is also a clue.
Search is /search/node
There is also a form_token for for field input.
There are other telltale signs all over, such as the css ids and classes.
The exact version was mentioned in http://www.ubuntu.com/CHANGELOG.txt. It said 4.7.5, so I alerted the webmaster, Matt Nuzum, who said that it is patched to 4.7.6.
Since then that file was removed from the server.
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Ubuntu.com and Drupal
If you go to http://www.ubuntu.com/?q=node/stories it shows you a typical Drupal list of stories. It would be nice of them to show somewhere on the front page that they use Drupal.
Matt Nuzum::The New Ubuntu Website
This is how I knew it was going to happen:
Matt Nuzum::The New Ubuntu Website
http://www.bearfruit.org/blog/2007/03/14/the-new-ubuntu-website/
Joe
cool!
ubuntu is also my favorite distro. It's great to hear that they are using drupal now. I already noted some time ago that they are using it for the ubuntu fridge too!
Ubuntu Server
I've been using Ubuntu Server in my VPS to serve a couple drupal-powered sites for about a month now. Stuff that work!
- Cronin
I suggested it, and they did it.
It's funny, because I was on a conference call with some folks at Canonical a couple months ago, and they mentioned that they were considering a redesign.
I evangelized Drupal, and it looks like they took it to heart. They also switched a couple other sites over to Drupal. They may be standardizing all of thier sites on Drupal.
It should certainly increase their 'community feel' and make updates and maintainance easier.