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Community, OSL and Sun Jump to Drupal's Rescue
Robert Douglass writes "Drupal asked for help and received a major dose of it. Sun Microsystems has stepped up and donated a Sun Fire V20z server which will be the backbone of Drupal's new server architecture at the Open Source Lab. Furthermore, over $10,000 in donations were collected in a matter of a couple days (thanks to all the people who responded to the previous /. post!), plus thousands more in pledges from groups like Apress and CivicSpaceLabs... looks like the community loves Drupal!"
Does anyone have any opinions on Drupal? How does it compare to other Content Management Systems like LCMS, Rainbow, DotNetNuke, and PHPNuke.
Good idea! I'll just go to the first page that Google returns and... "The page cannot be displayed"... oh damn.
Help Brendan pay off his student loans
Now sun have donated a server with dual Opteron and 4G RAM. This alone would probably have been enough to host the drupal site wiht a serious improvement in performance. But they've also purchased 3 Dell 1850s with dual Xeons and 2G RAM.
Given what was serving the site before, do they really need all this horsepower? With the unexpected server donation from Sun, could the money raised have been better spent on something other than more servers?
... fix the vulnerabilities in Drupal. http://www.kdedevelopers.org/ was running Drupal and was hacked into.
CMSs are used by some people to make wonderful stuff used by millions... stuff that they wouldn't be able to do by themselves.
Example: several years ago I made a free info site that gets 5k unique visitors a day. Many people benefit greatly from what I've posted there (a lot of text, some useful web tools, etc.).
Back when I was making it, I had absolutely no php (or anything similar) skills and simply wouldn't have done that website. I made it because there were some CMSs. And many people benefited my work (and indirectly the work of people that made my CMS).
Now... I don't see how is a driver for some device for not so popular OS far more useful than millions of people being able to use CMS-based websites. Both things are important, let's just not be "my stuff is the only important thing"-like nazis.
OMG!
The money they recieved were from donations. Not a penny was from someone who didn't want Drupal to have that money.
"Donations like this should be going to people doing things worth being done"
This is the stupidest thing I've read in a long time... Donations are given to people/projects which the donators think are doing something worthwhile, hence the donation!
I can't think of a singel thing to better prove if something is of value than other people giving money to support the continued development.
*shakes head*
It is so simple really.
You don't think Drupal is good? -Don't donate!
If someone else think it's good and they donate, don't bitch and whine about it. Clearly they feel that Drupal is WORTH IT!!
Who is to say that Drupal, if they get a foundation together, might not use some of their newly found horsepower to support/host other projects that are getting off the ground, or need their help?
... or summer internships for a few kids ... or something useful like that.
Personally, i'd love to see them use their new stuff for the betterment of their project and a few others. Also, it'd be great to see them take the excess money and invest it in such a way that it can continually pay for their operating costs
Here's to hoping.
I agree with Breezly. 64-bit Linux can be stable, given the right distribution. I ran testing on several major Linux distros in 32-bit and 64-bit and Solaris before finalizing my choice on my dual Opteron W2100z.
Summary of results: All 32-bit Linux good, some 64-bit Linux okay, 64-bit Solaris superb. In the end, I found the Solaris kernel better at SMP and more responsive with 32-bit Linux pretty good. 64-bit Linux on the distros I tried simply were not polished at the time (1st quarter 2005. Solaris 10 was the no-brainer final choice...though a Debian apt-get on Solaris 10 would ROCK!