A nice list of of free and open source software for various purposes at Digital Web Magazine.

Also: Check out Rafe’s ongoing series at rc3 comparing various blogging toolsets as he weighs the decision for his personal site.

Rafe, if you’re reading this, let me add a few more to the mix:

• Bloxsom – Perl (why is that a dirty word these days?), file system based simplicity.
• Roller – Java, huge developer community, used by Sun, and overall nice architecture.
• Blojsom – Java, cam use file system datastore like Bloxsom, used by Apple, clean architecture that looks easy to extend.

I may post some thoughts on this myself. The last time I attempted I got into a… ummmm.. interesting cross blog conversation.

Rafe, let me suggest you look at the health and growth of various developer communities working on these toolsets/platforms and at licensing. Licensing, in particular, cuts both ways.