| From: | Stefan Kaltenbrunner <stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> |
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| To: | Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Jean-Michel Pouré <jmpoure(at)free(dot)fr>, pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Best suiting OS |
| Date: | 2009-10-05 14:55:15 |
| Message-ID: | 4ACA08D3.5070906@kaltenbrunner.cc |
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Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 12:07 +0200, Jean-Michel Pouré wrote:
>> Go for Debian:
>> * It is a free community, very active.
>
> Well, we need to state that this is not a unique feature.
>
>> * It is guaranteed to be upgradable.
>
> Depends. I had lots of issues with upgrade process in the past -- but
> yeah, it is much better than most distros.
>
>> * Very easy to administrate via apt-get.
>
> Right. apt is better than yum (in terms of speed).
>
>> Choose Debian SID or testing, which will provide the latest fixes.
>
> One thing that I don't like about Debian is their update policy.
>
> If upstream is releasing a security update, I'd like to be able to find
> new packages as upstream announces updated sets. Yes, I'm talking about
> PostgreSQL here.
This is exactly what Debian does for a while now(at least for PostgreSQL)..
Ie.: Debian Etch aka has 8.1.18 and Debian Lenny has 8.3.8...
Stefan
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