Hmm...
I also use 64 bit
Fedora 16, on an AMD quad core at home, and on a dual Xeon quad
cores at work.
For a
desktop environment, I would recommend xfce for serious work over
GNOME 3. However, GNOME 3 is fine if you prefer fashion over
functionality. I have 25 virtual desktops, and make full use of
not
only multiple tabs on Firefox, but also on the nautilus directory
and
GNOME terminal windows – I also have useful applets on panels that
auto hide, etc., GNOME 2 could support that, but not GNOME 3!
What are the problems
of Java 7 on FC16? I am curious, as I am building a system using
Java 7 on FC16 using JBoss 7.1 backed by PostgreSQL 9.1.
If anyone is
interested, I have a bash script that installs JBoss 7.1 and
converts
it to use PostgreSQL.
>>
>> If we move to Linux, what is the
preferred Linux for running Postgres
>> on. This machine would be dedicated to
the database only.=20
>>
>> I'd like a recommendation for both a GUI
hosted version and a non-GUI
>> version. I haven't used Linux in the
past but did spend several year s
>> in a mixed Unix and IBM mainframe
environment at the console level.
I run PostgreSQL on Fedora Core 16 64bit and have never had
problems, now or before.
From that point of view I can recommend FC, but I don't know
how it compares
performance-wise to other distros.
I have been using the FC series since they split from the
"RedHat Linux" distribs at about "RedHat 9",
perhaps 10 years ago and have never missed anything, and
seldom noticed troublesome behavior.
My main criticism of FC is that the distro updates to a new
version quite often, 1-2 times per year,
and upgrades are seldom as smooth as they are
supposed/advertised to be, but they have become
much better.
Beyond that, the FC series have about everything you need for
development or anything else,
like running PG
You can use FC both with GUI and without. It comes by default
with GNOME. It also has
KDE, which looks (and works) similar to Windows. Both Gnome
and KDE run atop X.
FC has the usual Unix shells like bash (default), sh, ksh,
csh, tcsh ... and if you need
to connect to your host, there are several 3270 emulator
available, for X and also text-mode.
Two components which do not mix well with FC are Java 7
(1.7.0x) and Oracle RDBMS 11g.
For Java, stay with the 1.6 series until the problems of 1.7
are fixed. If you need to use the RDBMS
besides PG then FC is not your OS. Instead, look at
what systems they (Oracle) "support".
I hope this helps you with your decision.
