Comments on: Links 10/10/2008: Mandriva 2009 Released, Wikipedia Consolidates on Ubuntu http://techrights.org/2008/10/10/wikipedia-consolidates-on-ubuntu/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Gerard http://techrights.org/2008/10/10/wikipedia-consolidates-on-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-26713 David Gerard Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:41:31 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/10/10/wikipedia-consolidates-on-ubuntu/#comment-26713 Wikimedia's Linux server structure will move entirely to Ubuntu (from the current hodgepodge of Ubuntu and various versions of Fedora and Red Hat) for the sake of sysadmin sanity, but there are still a few back-end storage servers that will continue to run OpenSolaris. We consider it very important to keep an entirely free stack so people can duplicate our use of the free content freely. (There was a bit of Java, most prominently the Cortado Vorbis/Theora player expecting Java in browsers, before Java was entirely free software, but Sun has followed through nicely on this. It's all good!) Wikimedia’s Linux server structure will move entirely to Ubuntu (from the current hodgepodge of Ubuntu and various versions of Fedora and Red Hat) for the sake of sysadmin sanity, but there are still a few back-end storage servers that will continue to run OpenSolaris.

We consider it very important to keep an entirely free stack so people can duplicate our use of the free content freely.

(There was a bit of Java, most prominently the Cortado Vorbis/Theora player expecting Java in browsers, before Java was entirely free software, but Sun has followed through nicely on this. It’s all good!)

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