[Foundation-l] Re: Continued concern with performance

[David Gerard]

Tim Starling (t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au) [050118 14:08]:

> More system administrators are needed. My interest is in programming, 
> but I end up spending most of my time on Linux system administration, 
> because there's nobody else around to do it. Understand that Linux is an 
> operating system I had *never even used* before I started on Wikipedia. 
> I had to pick it up as I went along. It's a bizarre, flawed, buggy 
> operating system which I only use because I'm forced to.
 

Obviously Kate needs to port MediaWiki to VMS ;-)

(I feel your pain. I used to dislike running Linux, now I despise it.)


> Paid system administration help may be an option, but the first priority 
> for paid help should be hardware maintenance, since there are no 
> volunteers in that field, and a small amount of time spent will make a 
> big difference.


A good Linux admin with a screwdriver?


- d.