I want a website where users can register and login, and when they login, they get taken to their own page that shows them whatever I put on it. Is there something open-source that can do this? I don't want to specify a class of users that get to see something, I want to be able to have the user access a page that is specifically for that user. I don't need any other functionaity. Any ideas?
Drupal could probably do something like this as well with a little hacking. If that is all it needs to do, it might be just as easy to build something yourself. You might even be able to do the whole thing using .htaccess entries.
Community will get much larger with the introduction of Drupal 5.0 (better default theme, Automatic Installation profiles). And Drupal's architecture is more flexible. The following diagram (flexibility vs. development time of various web development tools) captures it all: webschuur.com/node/679.
Yes I'm aware of that. I've used Drupal as well and like the system, but the thing is that an average webmaster at DP don't have enough knowledge to build up their ond modules and addons. And since the Joomla community is the biggest one, I will reccomend to use it.