Xoops/Joomla Article Management system?

I have xoops on a server (actually I don't know if the company is still in business. If they aren't, I'll get a new host) and I need an article management system. I know xoops has the article module, but I need one thing in particular:

The ability to have sections on the front page that show the latest news from a specific category only on the front page, such as the page at http://www.nanowrimo.org/

Also, if you know of a way to do this with Joomla, it would be greatly appreciated.

 

I suggest you to try drupal.org

It is fairly easy to achieve with drupal

 

You could go for Drupal or Joomla. I prefer working with Joomla.

 

joomla wud be good. only problem is the sub category that lacks in joomla. but you can change how you categorized your categories nicely.

 

I actually experiment alot, so I have used drupal, xoops, and joomla. The problem is that I can't figure it out on any of them!

 

joomla looks great.. how customizable is it?

 

It is really customizable but not as much as drupal

 

i suggest you to use joomla . you can use it as article manager with great seo component . i have a joomla site and it has over 20k pages indexed by google

 

At the moment, I am playing around with joomla and learning as much as I can. And it seems good enough.