---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: River Tarnell river@attenuate.org Date: Apr 25, 2006 7:23 PM Subject: Re: [Toolserver-l] new login server To: Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com
Gregory Maxwell:
I'd be quite willing to take sole or nearly sole authority for it if it were running some form of Linux
okay, this is fine. i'll probably need to ok it with the other roots, but as you have root access on zedler anyway i doubt it'll be a problem.
from our end easiest to install is Fedora Core 4/5, but if you have a preference for something else, we can probably accomodate that. (we don't have a RHEL license though).
i'll let you know when the new server is available.
- river.
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
okay, this is fine. i'll probably need to ok it with the other roots, but as you have root access on zedler anyway i doubt it'll be a problem.
from our end easiest to install is Fedora Core 4/5, but if you have a preference for something else, we can probably accomodate that. (we don't have a RHEL license though).
If we don't want to worry about the Fedora upgrade treadmill, CentOS 4 should work fine as an RHEL clone.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On 4/27/06, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
okay, this is fine. i'll probably need to ok it with the other roots, but as you have root access on zedler anyway i doubt it'll be a problem.
from our end easiest to install is Fedora Core 4/5, but if you have a preference for something else, we can probably accomodate that. (we don't have a RHEL license though).
If we don't want to worry about the Fedora upgrade treadmill, CentOS 4 should work fine as an RHEL clone.
Right. I didn't forward my last message which mentioned CentOS 4. :) It's good stuff.
Fedora treadmill isn't that bad (most of the time).. I'm fine either way, I'd rather be consistent with the rest of Wikimedia (whatever that is) if we take this route.
On 27/04/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Right. I didn't forward my last message which mentioned CentOS 4. :) It's good stuff.
Fedora treadmill isn't that bad (most of the time).. I'm fine either way, I'd rather be consistent with the rest of Wikimedia (whatever that is) if we take this route.
*cough* Insert obligatory "FreeBSD ftw" type email here *cough*
Rob Church
On 4/27/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
*cough* Insert obligatory "FreeBSD ftw" type email here *cough*
Emacs!
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
On 4/27/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
*cough* Insert obligatory "FreeBSD ftw" type email here *cough*
Emacs!
*administers vicious stabbings*
In all seriousness, though, I'd prefer to keep the number of operating systems... limited. Especially if there's a desire to keep the main Wikimedia site admins in the loop, it's easier for most of us if we have something at least vaguely consistent. Otherwise we keep going "I dunno how the hell this works, you're on your own" when something breaks. :)
If there's not some specific reason to pick Operating System Brand X over the Red Hat-or-derivative we use everywhere else, I'd recommend sticking with it.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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