Re: Machine available for community use

Tom Lane wrote:
> I do essentially all my development work with installations that are
> --prefix'd to user directories and started/stopped by hand; it's just
> a lot easier to manage a pile of different versions that way.  Plus
> I never need to become root.  Not sure how other developers work,
> though.
>
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That's exactly how I work - I have a set of source trees and a script 
that invokes configure with port and prefix arguments to make sure they 
don't collide.

Like you I do almost all my work on some edition of Fedora - not always 
the latest by any means (e.g. currently it's FC6).

My vote would be for RHEL5/CentOS5 (they are basically the same thing - 
CentOS is RHEL with the RH badging removed, for the most part, and you 
don't need a RHN subscription). I think that would be a good combination 
of stability and currency.

cheers

andrew