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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. CentOS is free RHEL by Hero+Zzyzzx · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So it's unlikely the decisions were influenced heavily from a budgetary standpoint. If they wanted to stay with a free RHEL derivative linux that's essentially identical to the one you pay for, they'd be using CentOS.

    They chose Ubuntu. Maybe they just like it better? I think you can factor cost of out the equation.