Denis Lussier wrote: > 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, <da...@lang.hm <mailto:da...@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 > > I am a particular fan of FreeBSD, and in some benchmarking I did between it and CentOS FreeBSD 7.x literally wiped the floor with the CentOS release I tried on IDENTICAL hardware. I also like the 3ware raid coprocessors - they work well, are fast, and I've had zero trouble with them.
-- Karl
