Wikipedia Switches to Ubuntu
by Wyatt WalterProbably one of the most popular research sites on the web is in the midst of a switch to one of the largest growing Linux distributions. Wikipedia will be completing its transition to Ubuntu LTS from a mix of RHEL and Fedora machines. Wikipedia is making the move in an effort to make management simple by switching to a standard platform. Biron Vibber, CTO, says that they originally started with Red Hat at the beginning and during one of their periods of high growth, they went from 15 servers to 200 in about 18 months. They cited cost reasons for not switching to an entirely Red Hat platform. The current fleet of 400 servers is said to be managed by only 5 IT staff, an impressive testament to the Linux platform.
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Oct 9th, 2008
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October 10th, 2008 at 10:51 am
[...] Walter, one of our senior systems administrators, has an interesting article about Wikipedia switching operating systems: Wikipedia will be completing its transition to Ubuntu LTS from a mix of RHEL and Fedora machines. [...]
January 27th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Great! Thank you very much!
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January 28th, 2009 at 1:48 am
Go ahead..
February 17th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
[...] It has been gaining popularity both in small companies and in large companies with the likes of Wikipedia running Ubuntu exclusively. HP will be offering the OS on its ProLiant product lines which includes the cheap [...]