| From: | Robert Gravsjö <robert(at)blogg(dot)se> |
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| To: | Michael Gould <mgould(at)intermodalsoftwaresolutions(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Linux |
| Date: | 2010-11-04 16:20:19 |
| Message-ID: | 4CD2DD43.3090309@blogg.se |
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On 2010-11-04 16.00, Michael Gould wrote:
> 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.
>
We're running Gentoo which is kind of unortodox but we're using the
gentoo portage system for deploy of our own software and have extensive
in-house experience with Gentoo. I wouldn't recommend it as a first time
linux install though.
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Regards,
Robert "roppert" Gravsjö
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