Where does it say it's unsupported? Some older page, talking about the distro version? I routinely use MW from tarball on Ubuntu and it's fine. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Debian/Ubuntu
I'd personally recommend you install the prerequisites then use the MediaWiki tarball, but the distro 1.19 in recent versions of Ubuntu should be good (if a bit old).
I have done MW on Solaris and it was an exercise in pain, unless you use something that resolves dependencies for you. That is to say, a Linux.
- d.
On 20 July 2014 20:55, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I have experience with Ubuntu but MediaWiki says that Ubuntu is unsupported. Which Linux distro would people recommend, and which distro of Linux does WMF use for MediaWiki? I am thinking about installing Debian but am open to any suggestions that have a friendly UX.
Solaris is an option also.
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