arstechnica.com — The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind the hugely successful Wikipedia project, is migrating all of its server infrastructure to the Ubuntu Linux distribution. This move reflects the growing viability of Ubuntu for enterprise-scale server deployments.
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teambaldwinOct 11, 2008
Debian has a wizard. In fact, Ubuntu uses it in its text-mode installations
init100Oct 11, 2008
"If it is too easy, few will pay for support ..."Enterprise support means a lot more than a support helpdesk you can call when something is awry It includes such things as customization and integration, for starters.
scottymcbaggsOct 15, 2008
I say maintenance, one because the puppet packages in 8.04 are STILL broken, and I don't want to use cfengine because i have a dislike for perl. So I have to write my own init script for what is starting to become a common service, lulz, Multiply the hassle of doing this across 50+ boxes, and maintaining that when puppet gets upgraded and a working init script is in the package. Managing more than a few servers 'organically' without a real configuration management system is a PITA. Second is, dpkg sucks. It's like debian took every function of the package management system and made it have its own binary. This is not only stupid, but makes remembering how to do simple s**t difficult. For instance, WHY does there exist a separate package dpkg-file for the functionality that rpm -qf provides? Looks like that package isn't even in 8.04, and dpkg-query -S might be the replacement, but it is SLOW as hell. WHY do I have to add a crontab for ntp when it should be a daemon anyways? I encounter so many little annoyances per day that I can't possibly list them all Ademan.
scottymcbaggsOct 15, 2008
Oh and kickstart is another annoyance to deal without... it half way works in Ubuntu, but not for the more complicated things I need to work at deploy time.
shortanswerFeb 3, 2009
I love this development and the Wiki community. I recently read about Knol being a competitor to wikipedia, but it ain't going to happen.They want to be #1 at everything which is not practical. Even though they have enormous resources, it is impossible to be good at million things. Wikipedia is successful and it does what it is supposed to do exceedingly well.A Wikipedia Editor<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shortanswer">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shortanswer</a>