Wikipedia switch to Ubuntu operating system

&http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/37954.html ">NBSP; Wikipedia, a trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, is a wiki-based multilingual encyclopedia collaboration Program and a Web encyclopedia written in different languages, Its object and purpose is to provide a free encyclopedia for all humankind-written in the language of their choice, a dynamic, freely accessible and edited global body of knowledge. Also known as the "Encyclopedia of the people."

Wikipedia, which has been officially established since January 15, 2001, is maintained by the Wikimedia Foundation, and as of April 4, 2008, Wikipedia entries were the first English Wikipedia (http:// en.wikipedia.org) has 2.31 million entries, and all 255 languages have a total of 10 million entries, and the total number of registered users over 10 million, of which the first 15 entries in the total number of Wikipedia total entries of 74%, Most pages can be viewed and modified by anyone using a browser, the popularity of English Wikipedia has also contributed to other programs, such as Wikinews, Wikipedia, and other programs, although it also creates controversy about the accuracy of content that can be edited by all, but if the listed sources can be examined and validated, The content will be certain.

Previously, Wikipedia's internal platform has been a commercial version of the Linux operating system developed by Red Hat. But according to Gerry Carr, the organization's marketing manager, Wikipedia is in full transition to the Ubuntu 8.04-long Support (LTS) framework. The organization has been progressively transitioning from fedora and red Hat to Ubuntu since 2006.

The word wiki comes from the Hawaiian phrase "wee kee wee Kee", which originally meant "hurry up." Here WikiWiki refers to a hypertext system. This hypertext system supports community-oriented collaborative writing and includes a set of assistive tools to support this writing. We can browse the wiki text based on the web, creation, change, and creation, change, and publication cost far less than HTML text, while wiki systems support community-oriented collaborative writing that provides the necessary help for collaborative writing; Finally, the wiki writers naturally form a community, The wiki system provides a simple communication tool for this community. Wikis are easy to use and open to other hypertext systems, so the wiki system can help us to share knowledge in a given area within a community.

Now, on Wikipedia's 350 servers and desktops, only less than 20 machines are still running red-hat Linux and Windows, designed to run QuickBooks's statistical functions. The rest of the servers and desktops are running Ubuntu 8.04.

"Fedora is a bit too fast and we don't like their configuration management capabilities," says Brion Vibber, chief technology officer at Wikipedia. Several Wikipedia system administrators have been in favor of the Debian system, especially Ubuntu, which has caused the operating system of all the Wikipedia's computers to be replaced by Ubuntu.