I use Centos for production and Fedora for development and I am very happy with both. Especially Centos as I have never had an update break anything. On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 09:50 -0400, David Siebert wrote: > I would say that if you pick any of the big four you will be fine. > CentOS > Ubuntu Server LTS > Red Hat > Suse > Debian can also be a good choice. > We used to be an OpenSuse shop but we are now moving everything to > Ubuntu Server LTS. I can not say enough good things about CentOS as > far as stability and long support times. > > > On 11/4/2010 11:00 AM, 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. > > > > > > > > Best Regards > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________ > > Michael Gould, Managing Partner > > Intermodal Software Solutions, LLC > > 904.226.0978 > > 904.592.5250 fax > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
