Re: What Linux edition we should chose?

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 2:29 AM, Michal Szymanski <dyrex(at)poczta(dot)onet(dot)pl> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Currently we use Debian, but it chosen by our OS admnistrator. Now we
>> can change our OS and it is question what Linux edition will be the
>> best. We would like have access to new versions of Postgres as soon
>> as  possible, for Debian sometimes we had to wait many weeks for
>> official packages.
>
> Pgsql is pretty easy to build from source.
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And with ArchLinux its even more easy to keep track of its updates.
You don't have to make weird configurations. Just use a PKGBUILD
script from ABS (Arch Build System), change some settings, run makepkg
and your package is created with the default clean configuration. No
/usr/local stuff.

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