Re: SCO Extortion

Jim Mercer wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:16:46PM -0800, Gavin M. Roy wrote:
>
>>Thanks for the feedback thus far. I should also mention I use freebsd
>>for other stuff, but I am mainly asking in peoples experience, which is
>>the best for PostgreSQL to live on specifically. In terms of a nice smp
>>high end scsi system. Sorry for the lack of specifics on that before.
>
>
> i've built several billing systems for long distance companies using pgsql
> on FreeBSD since '97. i've found them to be quite stable and robust,
> including uniprocessor and SMP, using raw big disks, hardware RAID, and also
> the incumbent vinum software RAID.
>
> i've found upgrading the core OS, as well as upgrading pgsql and other apps,
> to be fairly clean and troublefree.

Since this is a "me too" kinda thread, I'll just say "me too".

Not nearly as long a history, only been working with PostgreSQL for about 2
years, but I've been relying on FreeBSD since 98/99, and it's never let me
down.

Not saying that NetBSD and OpenBSD aren't great systems as well, I just
started with FreeBSD, and I've never had need for anything else.

>>Gavin
>>
>>
>>Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Gavin M. Roy wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>I'm currently one of the targets of SCO's linux licensing extortion
>>>>business plan, and am contemplating switching to one of the BSD's to
>>>>avoid any potential problems. I'm curious which BSD people prefer for
>>>>large scale databases and why. Any pointers as to which I should test
>>>>out?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>for the longest time, the BSDs have been split as:
>>>
>>>FreeBSD - i386 rock solid
>>>NetBSD - work on as many platforms as possible
>>>OpenBSD - be as secure as possible
>>>
>>>There is alot of code sharing between them all though, so, IMHO, alot of
>>>it is personal preferences ... I've been using FreeBSD since '95, and
>>>other then having a habit of finding (and, usually pushing) its limits,
>>>I've been most happy with it ...

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