Re: Best suiting OS

From: Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>
To: Jean-Michel Pouré <jmpoure(at)free(dot)fr>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Best suiting OS
Date: 2009-10-05 10:46:16
Message-ID: 1254739576.9849.44.camel@hp-laptop2.gunduz.org
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On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 12:07 +0200, Jean-Michel Pouré wrote:
> Go for Debian:
> * It is a free community, very active.

Well, we need to state that this is not a unique feature.

> * It is guaranteed to be upgradable.

Depends. I had lots of issues with upgrade process in the past -- but
yeah, it is much better than most distros.

> * Very easy to administrate via apt-get.

Right. apt is better than yum (in terms of speed).

> Choose Debian SID or testing, which will provide the latest fixes.

One thing that I don't like about Debian is their update policy.

If upstream is releasing a security update, I'd like to be able to find
new packages as upstream announces updated sets. Yes, I'm talking about
PostgreSQL here.
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