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.p...@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. > > Pine > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
