I've been playing with sNews cms and find it to be quite a good piece of code.
Although it is quite useful 'out-of-the-box', its strength is as a 'developers' tool, providing custom, pre-written functions for inclusion in your Template. Lots of Mods available for it, and a lots of support via the Forum dedicated to sNews.

http://www.snewscms.com/

i tried installing snews once, all i got was a cgi script error?!? seemes weird.
that was on my own computer though, i havent tried actually uploading it somewhere (astahost) and installing it there. it looks like a pretty basic and simple cms anyway.

i wish i was a bit better at php, im sick of having to look for scripts instead of being able to just make them.

i hope what happened to me with css happens to me with php. i always found css like impossible and then at school once i tried learning it again and it like took me half an hour to like master almost all of it.

As for myself, I say and agree that the Best CMS is the one you wrote yourself, you know what it does, you know how it works, you can simply expand it and add things to it, but yeah, that requires some good knowledge and time, especially time. A lot of whom doesn't have time these days, so choosing some CMS is quite a good alternative, I personally think that Drupal is a great peace of software, I looked into it's code, use it a little, a lot of whom tell me that Joomla is the best, but to tell the truth, it offers to much, most of people using Joomla doesn't need 70% of what it can do Never really used any other CMS, but saw some in action, most of them are good if you know how it works and where what needs to be changed to suit your needs.

If I had enough time I'd probably code my own cms instead of using someone else's work. Otherwise I'd probably go with joomla.