Hello:

We are currently running MediaWiki v8.2, FreeBSD 4.8, PHP 5.2.2, MySQL 5.0.45. Our hosting provider is strongly suggesting that we upgrade the O/S to FreeBSD 6.2. The hosting provider is recommending that we use PBMPLUS library for image handling instead of ImageMagick since the ImageMagick library is far less efficient than previous versions when handling .GIF files. Alternatively, they are suggesting that we could continue to use ImageMagick but with other image formats. Is PBMPLUS compatible with MediaWiki? If not, what do you recommend?

Thank you,

Patricia Barden Center for Media and Democracy