[Foundation-l] Re: Continued concern with performance
David Gerard
fun at thingy.apana.org.au
Tue Jan 18 10:01:17 UTC 2005
Tim Starling (t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au) [050118 14:08]:
> More system administrators are needed. My interest is in programming,
> but I end up spending most of my time on Linux system administration,
> because there's nobody else around to do it. Understand that Linux is an
> operating system I had *never even used* before I started on Wikipedia.
> I had to pick it up as I went along. It's a bizarre, flawed, buggy
> operating system which I only use because I'm forced to.
Obviously Kate needs to port MediaWiki to VMS ;-)
(I feel your pain. I used to dislike running Linux, now I despise it.)
> Paid system administration help may be an option, but the first priority
> for paid help should be hardware maintenance, since there are no
> volunteers in that field, and a small amount of time spent will make a
> big difference.
A good Linux admin with a screwdriver?
- d.
More information about the foundation-l
mailing list