I'm a BSD license fan, but, I don't know much about *BSD otherwise (except that many advocates say it runs PG very nicely).
On the Linux side, unless your a dweeb, go with a newer, popular & well supported release for Production. IMHO, that's RHEL 5.x or CentOS 5.x. Of course the latest SLES & UBuntu schtuff are also fine.
In other words, unless you've got a really good reason for it, stay away from Fedora & OpenSuse for production usage.
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:10 PM,
<david@lang.hm> wrote:
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, S Arvind wrote:
Hi everyone,
What is the best Linux flavor for server which runs postgres alone.
The postgres must handle greater number of database around 200+. Performance
on speed is the vital factor.
Is it FreeBSD, CentOS, Fedora, Redhat xxx??
as noted by others *BSD is not linux
among the linux options, the best option is the one that you as a company are most comfortable with (and have the support/upgrade processes in place for)
in general, the newer the kernel the better things will work, but it's far better to have an 'old' system that your sysadmins understand well and can support easily than a 'new' system that they don't know well and therefor have trouble supporting.
David Lang
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