Re: Best Linux Distribution

I still opt for Slackware simplicity and stability. Nothing better than a
well configured Slackware box with XFS file system and PostgreSQL! =)

C Ya,
Bruno

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Ron Mayer
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 3:32 PM
To: Martijn van Oosterhout; pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Best Linux Distribution

When I had customers faced with this decision, we made the
recommendation based on which distro employs major contributors
of the software project in question.

For Postgresql's case, RedHat's employment of Tom made
our recommendation to use Red Hat.

Some of our clients are running .NET front ends, so we're
recommending Novel/SuSE for those.

It's a mix of superstition that the vendors platform is
may see earlier testing, along with rewarding the vendor
for supporting the project.

Ron

PS: All you open source vendors who employ important
developers -- Thank You - this contribution does not go unnoticed.

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 :)
>
> 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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