| From: | Bruce Hyatt <brucejhyatt(at)yahoo(dot)com> |
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| To: | Jasmin Dizdarevic <jasmin(dot)dizdarevic(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org, Ron <rjpeace(at)earthlink(dot)net> |
| Subject: | Re: [pgsql-novice] Daily digest v1.2311 (11 messages) |
| Date: | 2008-10-17 15:36:04 |
| Message-ID: | 470560.47978.qm@web34405.mail.mud.yahoo.com |
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--- On Fri, 10/17/08, Ron <rjpeace(at)earthlink(dot)net> wrote:
> >We plan to set up the whole thing on gentoo. A good
> idea?
> >
> Potential maintenance nightmare. You better have a real
> linux guru
> on staff and feel comfortable with the idea of compiling
> your entire
> OS from source from scratch. OTOH, if done right, a gentoo
> distro
> custom compiled for your HW will likely be one of the best
> performing
> distros. ?IF? you do EVERYTHING right.
>
> For most circumstances, there are better open source
> distros for a DB server.
>
I'm not familiar with Gentoo but I have been running a web server for the last year on CentOS 4 and have no complaints. It is an open source version of Redhat Enterprise. I have had no problems with bugs and it has required minimal updating.
Bruce Hyatt
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