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Wikimedia Simplifies By Moving To Ubuntu

Posted by kdawson on from the all-eggs-one-basket dept.

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!)"

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  1. Re:And? by EvilRyry · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sure Xorg and KDE4 are high on their priority list for their web servers.

  2. Re:And? by David+Gerard · · Score: 5, Funny

    You wouldn't believe how much nicer Squid and MySQL look in Compiz.

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  3. Re: Wikimedia Simplifies By Moving To Ubuntu by nick+graham · · Score: 5, Funny

    [citation needed]