Re: Support on Enterprise Linux (newbie)

>>If yes, which version supports it?
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>
>What is "Enterprise Linux"? (Aside from the future version to be
>deployed on starships...)
>
>
O.k. to actually answer the question in a useful manner. The gentlemen
probably means
RedHat Enterprise or SuSE Enterprise.

To answer his question, yes it will run -- quite well on the two
Enterprise Linux variations.

It will also should run on any modern Linux distribution without issue.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

>It is quite likely that if "Enterprise Linux" includes:
>
> a) A reasonably modern version of Linux, which is an operating system
> kernel produced by Linus Torvalds and the "cast of thousands,"
>
> b) A reasonably modern version of GLIBC, a GNU project which I
> believe is mostly managed by folks at the "Cygnus Solutions"
> division of Red Hat Software, and
>
> c) Some reasonable set of ancillary libraries, tools, compilers,
> and such,
>
>You can quite likely compile and run PostgreSQL on the system.
>
>It certainly runs well on numerous other flavours of Linux, including
>Debian, various releases by Red Hat Software, SuSE, MandrakeSoft, and
>those wild and crazy guys of Slackware.
>
>But it's hard to guarantee that you haven't found some new
>distribution on which it might not run.
>
>

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