Do the Daily News blogs run on Linux?
Why yes, they do. The server for insidesocal.com, the domain name that carries all 33 Daily News blogs indeed runs on Linux. The server is a few states away, and the only reason I know this much is that a few months back, we were having repeated problems with the blog server -- interminable waits to post via Movable Type -- and the decision was made to move to blogs to a new server.
The reason I know the old one was running Windows, the new one Linux? Some of my hand-coded HTML didn't account for the difference between upper- and lower-case letters in file names, and when the blogs moved, some images refused to display. The problem was corrected when I changed the case of letters in the code to conform to the case in the actual files themselves -- and Unix/Linux differentiates between upper and lower case. So WebGraphic.jpg and webgraphic.jpg are two different, distinct files in Linux/Unix, whereas case doesn't matter in Windows, and there can be only one with that name, regardless of the case of the letters.
And I don't know if it was a software or hardware problem, but things have been running just fine since we made the switch.




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