Re: Best suiting OS

Thanks Jean,
So from the discussion is it true that performance will be same across
all newly upgraded linux is it?

Thanks,
Arvind S
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On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:44 PM, Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8(at)verizon(dot)net>wrote:

> Matthew Wakeling wrote:
>
> For starters, FreeBSD isn't Linux at all. Secondly, the other three
>> options you have listed are all Red Hat versions - not much variety there.
>>
>
> The main difference between those is that Fedora tries to be the latest and
> greatest. This implies that you must reinstall or update about every six
> months -- because if you do not wish to do that, you would be running a
> more
> stable distribution.
>
>>
>> I know that some people swear by Red Hat, but I personally have had
>> nothing but trouble from such installations,
>>
>
> I have no trouble with Red Hat Enterprise Linux or its equivalent, CentOS.
> However the following point is valid:
>
> especially when trying to upgrade to a newer version of Postgres.
>>
>
> The theory with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution is that you run
> with what comes with it. All the stuff that comes with it is guaranteed to
> work together. Red Hat do not add features, change any interfaces, etc.
> Then
> they support it for 7 years. I.e., if it works for you at the beginning, it
> will work the entire 7 years if you wish.
>
> If you want newer features, you must upgrade, as with other distributions,
> but their upgrades come only about every year and a half, and if you do not
> need the new features, you just do not bother. I started with RHEL 3,
> skipped RHEL 4 (except I run CentOS 4 on my old machine), and am now
> running
> RHEL 5. Consequently, I am running postgresql-8.1.11-1.el5_1.1 and it works
> fine, as it did when I started. They fix only errors, not performance
> problems or new features.
>
> We have just switched a machine from Red Hat to Debian because of this
>> very problem. I can heartily recommend Debian, as it distributes new
>> versions of Postgres very quickly and allows you to continuously upgrade
>> without any problems. For comparison, with Red Hat, you will need to upgrade
>> to a whole new distribution whenever you want updated software, which is a
>> much bigger undertaking.
>>
>>
>
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