I totally agree with the spirit of Don's and Jerry's messages. Plus Ben's and Lamar's message as well. I've worked in and out of OpenACS with these people and I have the greatest respect for them.
Stephen said that AOLserver is "apalingly unreliable on Linux". I've run AOLserver on Linux since its 2.3 days. I have AOLserver processes that go months without any restart (using nsd76). I do not see that unreliability.
Much to the opposite. People always amaze themselves when they see what AOLserver/PostgreSQL/OpenACS/Linux can do with so little resources. For over a year our 85% dynamic site ran on a P133 with 64 Mb of RAM and a cheapo 3 Gb HD. Granted, we only get about 1000 hits/day, but still. (ArsDigita has since graceously donated a screaming fast server to us. Thanks Adam :))
What I'd like to ask everybody is:
- What can we do to revive the AOLserver community? a fork? A separate CVS tree where we can stest stuff and try to keep in synch with AOL?
