Re: Gentoo for production DB server?

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 05:01:42PM -0500, Greg Donald wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 16:33, Christine Desmuke wrote:
> > At the risk of starting a flame-war, I'd like some more details on the
> > use of Gentoo Linux for a production PostgreSQL server. There have been
> > a couple of comments lately that it is not such a great idea; does
> > anyone have specific experience they'd be willing to share?
>
> I used Gentoo for a long time on my home systems but I recently quit.
>
> It's a "fun" distro as far as the options and all, and it has a great
> user community for support.. but I got tired of the Gentoo developers
> (whether intentional or not) pushing out new stuff marked as "stable"
> when it obviously was not.  The price was right and I knew going in I

Agreed.

> For stability, db/web server usage and such, I'd go with Debian.
> For features, desktop systems, etc., I'd go with Suse.  9.1 is
> impressive.
> For security, firewall, or router usage, I'd go with *BSD.

Actually, FreeBSD is an outstanding platform for stability as well. They
offer -current, -stable, and security branches depending on how much
instability you can tolerate.
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Jim C. Nasby, Database Consultant               decibel@decibel.org
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