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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 TooMuchToDo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    News for nerds. Check.

    Stuff that matters. Well, to some, probably. Semi-check.

  2. go on.... by pablo_max · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This may sound like I am trolling, but I am really trying to figure out how this is at all news worth of in any way amazing...
    I can see if perhaps they went from all MS servers to Linux that would be interested, but to go from older versions of Ubuntu to a newer version just seems...obvious.
    So I ask seriously, can someone explain to a slight ubuntu user like myself; whats the big deal?

  3. Re:And? by RiotingPacifist · · Score: 0, Redundant

    erm breaking wikipedia.

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