Hello, River Tarnell wrote: > Marcin Cieslak: >> I think that for stability it is useful to have more homogenious environment >> (pretty similar setup on multiple machines) so that, for example, moving a >> project from 'unstable' to 'stable' is easy. > > yes; the only reason we don't is that most of our users only have experience > with Linux, and find the Solaris userland unfamiliar (this was evident when we > only had one server, which ran Solaris). we thought that using Linux on the > login servers, while adding complexity for us, would reduce the amount of user > support we had to do. > > unfortunately the original plan - which was that i would continue to maintain > the Solaris side of the infrastructure and someone else would be responsible > for the user servers running Linux - did not work out very well, and a lot of > my time is taken up fixing problems on the Linux side.
Is there a list/compilation of problems found on Linux? I think that would be quite interesting for a lot of people. May be on the wiki? > - river Best regards, Yann -- http://www.non-violence.org/ | Site collaboratif sur la non-violence http://www.forget-me.net/ | Alternatives sur le Net http://fr.wikisource.org/ | Bibliothèque libre http://wikilivres.info | Documents libres _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l
