Re: [Toolserver-l] [Maps-l] IPv6 test day on toolserver / tileserver?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 River Tarnell: > Kai Krueger: > > tomorrow is world IPv6 day [1]. If I have read correctly, Wikimedia is > > intending to participate in the test day. I was wondering if that > > extends to the toolserver as well and in particular to the tile server?

[Toolserver-l] Fwd: Two Python libraries

Thanks Aaron! Sometimes thing are a little simpler than I guess... :( Alex -- Forwarded message -- From: Aaron Halfaker Date: 2011/6/7 Subject: Re: [Toolserver-l] Two Python libraries To: toolserver-l@lists.wikimedia.org Alex, A good way to check if a library is available is t

Re: [Toolserver-l] operating systems and web servers

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:22 AM, River Tarnell wrote: > ZFS snapshots are nice, but OTOH ZFS can't remove storage from a pool or > do any kind of online relayout, both of which are standard features in > VxVM (and I assume in Linux LVM as well, although I have no experience > of it.) Linux LVM can

Re: [Toolserver-l] Two Python libraries

Alex, A good way to check if a library is available is to just try importing it from the python CLI. For example: grphack@nightshade:~$ python Python 2.7.1 (r271:86832, Jan 4 2011, 13:57:14) [GCC 4.5.2] on sunos5 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import l

[Toolserver-l] Two Python libraries

While testing a way to convert it.source texts into ePub format, a friend asked me to know if genshi and lxml (python libraries) are already installed and usable into toolserver. I told him that I didn't know... and ev

Re: [Toolserver-l] operating systems and web servers

On 07/06/2011 4:49 AM, River Tarnell wrote: > > Why Linux and not FreeBSD, or Solaris, or OpenServer, or MP-RAS, or ...? > I've asked this many times in the past (usually when someone says "I > want Linux") and never had a real answer that I can remember.[0] Availability of expertise. Just here a

Re: [Toolserver-l] operating systems and web servers

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Baron: > Also, what do you lose with FreeBSD? > so far I can think of: > * zfs dedupe ZFS version 28, including dedup, was integrated into FreeBSD head (9-CURRENT) in February. I imagine it will make it back into 8.x eventually, but althou

Re: [Toolserver-l] operating systems and web servers

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Kinzler: > why FreeBSD and not Linux? Why Linux and not FreeBSD, or Solaris, or OpenServer, or MP-RAS, or ...? I've asked this many times in the past (usually when someone says "I want Linux") and never had a real answer that I can remember.

Re: [Toolserver-l] operating systems and web servers

(Take with some grains of salt: never used FreeBSD or Solaris shells myself and am not a ts-admin. Also, this is a cell phone and I shouldn't even be awake now!) Also, what do you lose with FreeBSD? so far I can think of: * zfs dedupe * there's no longer a single "goto" company to get support fro