Re: Best Linux Distribution

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
Cc: Esteban Kemp <ekemp(at)inf(dot)uach(dot)cl>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Best Linux Distribution
Date: 2005-01-19 17:03:31
Message-ID: 41EE92E3.5060106@commandprompt.com
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Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

>No difference whatsoever from PostgreSQL's point of view. Use whichever
>distribution is easiest for you to administer. After all, there's no
>point installing Postgres on a machine you don't know how to maintain
>or tune :)
>
>
Actually there is a difference from PostgreSQL's point of view :)
Namely in filesystems. The default filesystem on whitebox, RHEL and
Fedora is EXT3 which really isn't that great.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>Hope this helps,
>
>On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 11:14:00AM -0300, Esteban Kemp wrote:
>
>
>>I'm starting to develop a production enviroment with Postgres and
>>Tomcat, And I have to choose between some free linux distribution
>>like:
>>
>>whitebox
>>RHEL
>>Fedora
>>Suse
>>
>>Which is the better distribution in terms of postgres? if this has an answer
>>
>>

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