Re: Best suiting OS

I'm a BSD license fan, but, I don't know much about *BSD otherwise (except
that many advocates say it runs PG very nicely).
On the Linux side, unless your a dweeb, go with a newer, popular & well
supported release for Production. IMHO, that's RHEL 5.x or CentOS 5.x. Of
course the latest SLES & UBuntu schtuff are also fine.

In other words, unless you've got a really good reason for it, stay away
from Fedora & OpenSuse for production usage.

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:10 PM, <david(at)lang(dot)hm> wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, S Arvind wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>> What is the best Linux flavor for server which runs postgres alone.
>> The postgres must handle greater number of database around 200+.
>> Performance
>> on speed is the vital factor.
>> Is it FreeBSD, CentOS, Fedora, Redhat xxx??
>>
>
> as noted by others *BSD is not linux
>
> among the linux options, the best option is the one that you as a company
> are most comfortable with (and have the support/upgrade processes in place
> for)
>
> in general, the newer the kernel the better things will work, but it's far
> better to have an 'old' system that your sysadmins understand well and can
> support easily than a 'new' system that they don't know well and therefor
> have trouble supporting.
>
> David Lang
>
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