I've just taken in several of the O.S. discussions, detecting a difinitive bias in favor of linux over windows... but nowhere in the discussions did I hear mentioned what O.S. (and "flavor, assuming linux) moodle.org hosts from?
Hi Bob,
Linux kernel as can be seen from http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=moodle.org . It does not appear to say anything about the flavour.
Manish.
Apparently it is RH Enterprise 5.5, except that some of the packages like PHP have been rebuilt with different compile options.
thanks Tim,
this was just the info I needed.
As a LAMP plattform all "flavours" (Linux distributions) have the same efficiency, provided that you don't install a GUI system on it. The difference is for _you_, your time is efficiently utilized and it is more fun, if you work with the distribution you know well.
I can't agree as 2.6.32 has significant negative impact on IO subsystem that has a lot to say when talking about databases.
IMHO you should visit sites like http://www.phoronix.com/ to choose best kernel version and file system. On large instalations those things matter.
I stand corrected. I didn't notice that it is about the Linux distribution of moodle.org but a general discussion on Linux distributions.
And thanks for suggesting phoronix, good reading!
And thanks for suggesting phoronix, good reading!
Hardware specs are at: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=113921#p529176
Both servers are running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
We roll our own RPM's here at Moodle HQ to keep up to date with the latest apache, php, mysql and a few other dependancy libraries.