| From: | Liraz Siri <liraz(at)turnkeylinux(dot)org> |
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| To: | Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, Greg Smith <gsmith(at)gregsmith(dot)com>, Scott Marlowe <scott(dot)marlowe(at)gmail(dot)com>, turnkey-discuss(at)lists(dot)turnkeylinux(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Ubuntu for servers (was TurnKey PostgreSQL) |
| Date: | 2008-12-10 04:29:36 |
| Message-ID: | 493F45B0.1080803@turnkeylinux.org |
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Robert Treat wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 December 2008 19:43:02 Liraz Siri wrote:
>> Greg has a good point. Ubuntu is a bit of a moving target. In contrast,
>> Debian has a much slower release cycle than Ubuntu and is thus
>> considered by many people to be preferable for production server
>> applications.
>>
>
> Another option for folks is to switch to another operating system thats a bit
> more stable *cough*solaris*cough*bsd*cough*
Solaris is awesome (dtrace rocks!), but I still prefer Debian/Linux for
the same reasons I prefer PostgreSQL over MySQL - its lack of dependence
on any single company.
Besides Sun Microsystems hasn't been a financially healthy organization
for quite a few years, as evidenced by its rather dismal stock performance:
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=java
Cheers,
Liraz
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