Foswiki vs. LynxWiki

General Features Foswiki LynxWiki
Version
2.1.11
1.3.0.0
Last Release Date
2026-03-15 (7 months ago)
2013-08-02 (13 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-03-15 (7 months ago)
2013-08-29 (13 years ago)
Author
Foswiki Community
J.W. Davidson
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
Perl
C#
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
$0
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
small organization to enterprise
System Requirements Foswiki LynxWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Windows
Root Access
No
Yes
Webserver
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
IIS7 or IIS8
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
IronPython
Datastorage Foswiki LynxWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
No
PostgreSQL
No
No
Oracle
No
No
SQLite
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Other
caching of content into database using plugins
MS SQL, MS SQL Express
Security/Anti-Spam Foswiki LynxWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
MS Membership and Roles
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Development/Support Foswiki LynxWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Stars on GitHub
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Foswiki LynxWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Special Features Foswiki LynxWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Interface Languages
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
None
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Plugin
No
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
Links Foswiki LynxWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features Foswiki LynxWiki
HTML Tags
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
Plugin
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Yes
BBCode Support
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
No
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
Scripting
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
IronPython
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Yes
Usability Foswiki LynxWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Statistics Foswiki LynxWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Analysis
Yes
No
Output Foswiki LynxWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
Office Export
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files Foswiki LynxWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
Contents
Extras Foswiki LynxWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Foswiki LynxWiki
Internal Link 
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
 
CamelCase
"display text":DisplayText
External Link 
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
 
http://www.wikimatrix.org
"Wiki Matrix":http://www.wikimatrix.org
"this is a link (optional tooltip)":http://www.microsoft.com
Headlines 
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
 
!!Header 2
!!!Header 3
!!!!!!Header 6
Bold Format 
*bold*
 
*bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format 
_italic_
 
_italics_
Underline Format 
<u>underline</u>
 
+underlined+
Monospace Format 
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
 
[indent single space]
@mono space on single line@
@@ start on multiline with end @@
Strikethrough Format 
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
 
-strikethrough-
Superscript Format 
<sup>superscript</sup>
 
superscript^234^
Subscript Format 
<sub>subscript</sub>
 
water: H~2~O
Images 
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
 
[image:/LynxWiki/Attachments/upload/images/IMG_2002.jpg]
http://www.example.org/someimage.jpg
Aligning Text 
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
 
N/A
Text Indentation 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
 
N/A
Bulleted Lists 
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
* first bullet (8 spaces)
* first sub item bullet
* second item
Numbered Lists 
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
 
1. first numbered item
1. second item
Definition Lists 
$ Term: Definition
 
N/A
Horizontal Rule 
---
 
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