Re: Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL

From: "Steve Wolfe" <steve(at)iboats(dot)com>
To: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL
Date: 2001-06-27 22:30:42
Message-ID: 004d01c0ff58$d6957d60$13c0e43f@codon.com
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> > 1) Distribution of Linux to have the largest number of "out of the box"
> > security holes. Check back and look at the security reports. Count them
if
> > you insist.
>
> And check for the number of them being Red Hat specific.

I consider things like the portmapper being enabled by default Red Hat
specific.

> > 3) So much extra crap running to begin with, eating up extra memory,
cpu,
> > etc.
>
> You're obviously unfamiliar with it.

I don't know, I generaly turn off at least half of the services that are
enabled by default, which free up quite a bit of memory.

steve

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