Posts made by Visvanath Ratnaweera

Moodle in English -> Installing and upgrading help -> A super user friendly Moodle Installation website -> Re: A super user friendly Moodle Installation website

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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> Comparing desktop use to moodle server installations does not make sense here.

You're right. The server and the desktop are two different worlds. Linux won the server world long ago. Windows dominates the desktop since the beginning! There are many more worlds: the embedded devices, smartphone market, tablets, etc. Yeah, one has to look at them differently. I was reacting to the argument often brought in favour of Windows, that you can get more support for Windows since there are more Windows users. That applies to the desktop world. On moodle.org there are definitely more Linux users.

https://w3techs.com/technologies. Never seen that before. There are other interesting breakdowns.
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Moodle in English -> Installing and upgrading help -> A super user friendly Moodle Installation website -> Re: A super user friendly Moodle Installation website

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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Hi Ken

'But isn't Moodle difficult to install on Linux?'

Let's ask @Benoit Xavier again - same question ... think Benoit  has already answered, but might have some additional comments/thoughts.

If you want to cook so that even @Benoit Xavier can digest, many other will have die of boredom.

We all are a product of our experiences ... I 'experienced' Code Red and Nimda and attempting to support admins of NT 4.0/IIS with Front Page extensions servers (none of which was my choice nor preference as I was using and advised Linux back then!).   Folks today may have 'experienced' CrowdStrike.

For our topic, Linux system administration, the experience counts too. I don't take the magic number 10,000 hour in the Outliers literally, but just think of the number of hours we must have tortured our keyboards.

That's not to say that Linux distros don't have their problems - especially if admins of those servers don't keep them up to date.

So Linux has problems and their admins have more problems?

To be honest, don't think we will ever be able to provide "super user friendly" that satisfies all.

Are we back at square one?

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Moodle in English -> Installing and upgrading help -> A super user friendly Moodle Installation website -> Re: A super user friendly Moodle Installation website

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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> First, if you run into problems, the pool of experts who can fix a LAMP problem is larger than for any other webserver.

How is it possible? The Linux clan is joyous with 4.5% market share, whereas Windows has 74%! https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/. What is the explanation?

> I do like your distinction between reference and tutorial.

References are shorter, and easier. Installation_quick_guide is an extreme case. More common are Installing_Moodle_on_Debian_based_distributions or Step-by-step_Installation_Guide_for_Ubuntu. I think, for full tutorials MoodleDocs are the wrong place. Once you start explaining what chmod, chown and 'ls -a' are things will explode!
 
> I like WSL!
 
That is where things start to get controversial. Some people feel cosy to lie on Microsoft - others get spasms. sad
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Moodle in English -> General help -> Running Programs -> Re: Running Programs

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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I think compliance from the side of the administration and teachers editing their courses are two different things. Compliance is bound to a time plan, like semesters or academic years. The administration devices "backup days" to archive courses, some even archive whole sites - say the running Moodle will be frozen during the summer vacation and the fall semester starts on a new one. There have been many such discussions in the forums. Run the Advanced forum search. It is in the right side drawer.

Teachers editing their courses is spurious. Nobody can suggest solutions, unless their is a pattern. This has to be left to the teachers - with some background training on compliance requirements and how a non-versioning LMS behaves.

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