Wikipedia adopts Ubuntu for its server infrastructure - arstechnica

[jocose]

"Wikipedia adopts Ubuntu for its server infrastructure" (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081009-wikipedia-adopts-ubuntu-for-its-server-infrastructure.html) - arstechnica news

[handy]

Even though Canonical don't directly benefit financially from this, I'm sure that they will be very happy to add the wiki's use of their server OS to their promotional portfolio for future use to aid in influencing potential new customers to use their server OS.

[jespdj]

Look at this: Ubuntu scores major Wikipedia win (http://blogs.computerworld.com/ubuntu_scores_major_wikipedia_win)

[Calmatory]

Good news. :)

Arr, shouldn't it say "Long Term Support" instead of "Long Term Service", or have I lived in disbelief all these years?

[LaRoza]

Interesting.

It says the move will take a couple of years (which is pretty fast, for an OS change).

The forums here run on measily servers with Ubuntu (not sure which version) and they perform very well. (For those who think the forum's are down too much, consider that an admins is a member flashlight forum (a forum for flashlight collectors) that has better hardware than this forum...)

[mybunche]

I was just going to post this here but you guys beat me to it.

Very happy with this good news. Good choice by Wikipedia. It's also the desktop of choice for me. :)

Go Ubuntu !

[Joeb454]

Multiple threads merged :)

[jocose]

thanks for merging, mods are sure fast!

[billgoldberg]

Interesting.

It says the move will take a couple of years (which is pretty fast, for an OS change).

The forums here run on measily servers with Ubuntu (not sure which version) and they perform very well. (For those who think the forum's are down too much, consider that an admins is a member flashlight forum (a forum for flashlight collectors) that has better hardware than this forum...)

On what hardware exactly is this forum run? And where are the servers located?

I presume Canonical pays for it?

[LaRoza]

On what hardware exactly is this forum run? And where are the servers located?

2x Dual Core Opteron servers, provided by Canonical, in London I think.

[Canis familiaris]

2x Dual Core Opteron servers, provided by Canonical, in London I think.

Quality is good but quantity is less I think.

[Chame_Wizard]

2x Dual Core Opteron servers, provided by Canonical, in London I think.

:lolflag: nice

[nnamdi]

up hail ubuntu we are really takin over very soon microsoft would be advice thier customers to use ubutnut

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/wikipedia-moving-400-servers-to-ubuntulinux.html

Wikipedia is ditching out a mix of Red Hat and Fedora for Ubuntu Linux. Wikipedia has 10 million articles in 250 languages and it is one of the 10 most visited websites in the world.

One of the reasons for this switch was that they did not want to pay Red Hat for support on their provided software solutions. Ubuntu Linux get updated frequently and nothing can beat apt package manger.:lolflag:

[Rocket2DMn]

Moved to the Cafe.

[billgoldberg]

I hate to be the guy that yells "repost".

But I guess I just did.

[jocose]

dupe

please merge with: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=943175

[Rocket2DMn]

Merged.