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Wikipedia moving 400 servers to Ubuntu Linux

Submitted by srlinuxx on Thu, 10/09/2008 - 14:47.

Since the free, online Wikipedia user-created encyclopedia began in 2001, the Linux-based IT infrastructure behind it has been expanded and lassoed together to keep up with the demands of the popular Web site.

That meant that often it was haphazardly expanded by tossing in a new server with a different operating system each time. Over five years, the servers were running a variety of versions of Red Hat Linux and Red Hat Fedora, making it more complicated to install applications and maintain the servers.

Soon, that problem will be gone.

n a few months, Wikipedia will finish a major transformation by moving from a combination of versions of Red Hat products to Ubuntu Linux Version 8.04 on all 400 of its servers that support the Web site.

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re: Wikipedia

Submitted by vonskippy on Thu, 10/09/2008 - 22:15.

the article wrote:
Wikipedia could just as easily have made the switchover to all Red Hat, but that would have cost more money, he said. "It would seem to me that if money weren't an issue here, there wouldn't be anything keeping them from upgrading everything to Red Hat."

If only there was a completely free binary clone derived directly from RHEL source rpms that they could have used instead of switching over to the immensely flaky unoobtu crap.

What type of crack was Wikipedia's so called IT group smoking?

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Completely free binary clone derived directly from RHEL

Submitted by andrewfn on Fri, 10/10/2008 - 12:13.

"If only there was a completely free binary clone derived directly from RHEL source rpms that they could have used instead of switching over to the immensely flaky unoobtu crap."

Sounds like CentoOS to me!

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Strange status of the related domain names...

Submitted by Béranger on Fri, 10/10/2008 - 04:37.

wikibuntu.com: taken
wikibuntu.org: taken
ubupedia.org: available
ubupedia.com: available

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