Re: Linux

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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Robert "roppert" Gravsjö