Re: Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL

On Wednesday 27 June 2001 16:43, Alex Knight wrote:
> 1) Distribution of Linux to have the largest number of "out of the box"
> security holes. Check back and look at the security reports. Count them if
> you insist.

Been there, done that.  7.1 is much better -- both for Red Hat and
PostgreSQL...  Out of the box, RHL7.1 is tight -- the firewall ruleset
defaults to HIGH -- which means no connections at all are allowed in.

> 2) Most commercial software made _for_ RedHat (some companies only
> "support" RedHat) insist that you use RPM to install their software,
> otherwise you are SOL. Most commercial software made _for_ _Linux_
> supports all distributions.

And there's something wrong with RPM?  It sure makes it easier -- at least I
can't install software that is linked against the wrong libc versions.

> (Yeah, sure you can spend time securing and setting up the box to not
> run what it shouldn't be... _OR_ you can save that wasted time (it adds up
> when you are setting up 30 production machines) and run a quality
> distribution like Debian or even Slackware)

When you do 30 machines, you use Kickstart and make each machine the way you
want it, on a cookie-cutter-like system.  You only have running what you
install -- and if you don't go through and set the system up right on any
distribution, you will get problems anyway.

> I'm sure we could go on, but this isn't a Linux list :)

No, it isn't.  But statements on how RHL isn't suitable for a production
PostgreSQL system will be answered. Politely, of course.

Again, there are several systems you can go with -- RHL is but one of them.
I have experience with it in a moderately demanding environment (mission
critial broadcast applications are running on PostgreSQL here, on RHL). I
would have no problem running any of the excellent Linux distributions,
OpenBSD, or FreeBSD here -- as long as RealAudio runs, I'm happy.  In May
1997 RedHat Linux was the only RealAudioServer-supported Open Source OS.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it -- and RHL ain't broke.
--
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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