Wikimedia Simplifies By Moving To Ubuntu 215
David Gerard writes "Wikimedia, the organization that runs Wikipedia and associated sites, has moved its server infrastructure entirely to Ubuntu 8.04 from a hodge-podge of Ubuntu, Red Hat, and various Fedora versions. 400 servers were involved and the project has been going on for 2 years. (There's also a small amount of OpenSolaris on the backend. All open source!)"
Re:And? (Score:4, Funny)
In related(ly boring) news, Sun Microsystems replaced 200 old worn-out keyboards on their office workstations. Also, a handful of Microsoft employees patched their OSes, and some guy in Phoenix got a paper cut on his finger.
Re:And? (Score:4, Funny)
Actually, does anyone know how that happens?
Re:And? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sure Xorg and KDE4 are high on their priority list for their web servers.
Re:And? (Score:5, Funny)
You wouldn't believe how much nicer Squid and MySQL look in Compiz.
Re: Wikimedia Simplifies By Moving To Ubuntu (Score:5, Funny)
whoa. (Score:1, Funny)
BIG, big fan of your work. Your edits are bar-none, the most fappable out there. When do you plan on adding more pics to your profile?
Re:And? (Score:2, Funny)
Perhaps it's for the best, as a -5 offtopc-mod would surely catch the attention of everyone. Oh look at this (_(_) (_|_) (_)_) Da Buttdance!
NO! NOOO! DON'T MOD ME -5 OFF-TOPIC!
Disclaimer: Been drinking too much Chimay tonight.
Re:And? (Score:3, Funny)
It is a lot longer than 1 year
Re: Wikimedia Simplifies By Moving To Ubuntu (Score:4, Funny)
nice, but you forgot the big one.
"the neutrality of this article has been disputed"