Re: Linux

On 11/04/2010 11:10 AM, Bill Moran wrote:
> In response to Michael Gould<mgould(at)intermodalsoftwaresolutions(dot)net>:
>
>
>> I know that this is probably a "religion" issue but we are looking to move
>> Postgres to a Linux server. We currently have a Windows 2008 R2 active
>> directory and all of the other servers are virtualized via VMWare ESXi. One
>> of the reasons is that we want to use a 64 bit Postgres server and the UUID
>> processing contrib module does not provide a 64 bit version for Windows. I
>> would also assume that the database when properly tuned will probably run
>> faster in a *inx environment.
>>
>> What and why should I look at certain distributions? It appears from what I
>> read, Ubanta is a good desktop but not a server.
>>
> <religion>
> I use FreeBSD everywhere, and have over 10 years experience running
> PostgreSQL on FreeBSD ... I've been extremely happy with how well
> the two work together, including upgrade paths, performance, security,
> and customizability. I currently manage over 20 FreeBSD+PostgreSQL
> servers at work.
> </religion>
>
> If you're married to Linux, remember that PostgreSQL has had a pretty
> tight relationship with Red Hat for a while now.
>
> Beyond that, I think that any Linux distro that caters to a server
> environment will work well for you.
>
> The thing (in my experience) that's going to make you happy or angry
> is how well the packaging system works. Find a distro whos packaging
> system keeps up to date with PostgreSQL releases and value adds stuff
> to make upgrading, management, and migration easier and you'll probably
> have a distro that you'll be happy with.
>
>
We have used FreeBSD but are moving to CentOS. Main reason is longer
support window.
FreeBSD usually goes EOL in a year or two. CentOS 5.x is supported thru
at least 2014.

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