[ubuntu-uk] UBUNTU Server (Was: Re: Wikipedia migrates to Ubuntu)

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

Quoting Andrew Oakley <andrew at aoakley.com>:

> "The Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind the user-driven
> Wikipedia project, is in the process of migrating its servers to the
> Ubuntu Linux distribution. Wikimedia's move to Ubuntu is part of an
> effort to simplify administration of the organization's 400 servers,
> which previously ran a mix of various versions of Red Hat and Fedora."
>
> http://tinyurl.com/4jqkdj (ars technica)

Interesting.

Up until now I've been using Debian Etch on my servers because I had a  
bad experience with Ubuntu Server a few years back.

Maybe it's time to look at this again - are there any major  
differences apart from the package versions?

Cheers,

M.
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Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk
http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/