Originally Posted by nestle

I know there are DOZENS (literally) of free and open source CMS applications out there. Just wanted to see if anyone have tried any of them for their sites and also to see examples of how they were modified to fit your needs.

I am looking for like Joomla/Mambo, Drupal, etc... not people who are using blogging-specific apps like MovableType and WordPress.

I'm actually coding my own CMS from scratch (doing the database schema and normalization now) but trying to see if there is already a system out there that I can simply modify easily for my needs so I don't reinvent the wheel.

Thanks.