Re: Machine available for community use

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Gavin M. Roy wrote:

> Ubuntu server?  Slackware?  Not a fan of Centos, RHEL or Fedora...

Unless you did a custom intall, using Ubuntu server would expose the 
people using your server to the quirks of how the Debian packages for 
PostgreSQL differ from other Linux distributions.  I'm not sure whether 
that would be a good (shine some light on that underdocumented area) or 
bad (get in people's way) thing.  The way they make it easier to manage 
multiple clusters might actually be ideal for what you're trying to do, 
let people have their own cluster and stay out of each other's data space 
at least.

I think Slackware has all the non-mainstream issues of Gentoo, but without 
the advantages Portage brings.

> What about on the BSD side of things?

Since your goal is improve scalability on Linux, I think you'd be best 
focusing on that.  There's just enough low-level differences between the 
two that I'd hate to see you put resources into improving scaling, only to 
discover it doesn't actually help what you put into production because the 
platform is too different.

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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD