I still opt for Slackware simplicity and stability. Nothing better than a well configured Slackware box with XFS file system and PostgreSQL! =) C Ya, Bruno -----Original Message----- From: pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ron Mayer Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 3:32 PM To: Martijn van Oosterhout; pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Best Linux Distribution When I had customers faced with this decision, we made the recommendation based on which distro employs major contributors of the software project in question. For Postgresql's case, RedHat's employment of Tom made our recommendation to use Red Hat. Some of our clients are running .NET front ends, so we're recommending Novel/SuSE for those. It's a mix of superstition that the vendors platform is may see earlier testing, along with rewarding the vendor for supporting the project. Ron PS: All you open source vendors who employ important developers -- Thank You - this contribution does not go unnoticed. Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > No difference whatsoever from PostgreSQL's point of view. Use whichever > distribution is easiest for you to administer. After all, there's no > point installing Postgres on a machine you don't know how to maintain > or tune :) > > Hope this helps, > > On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 11:14:00AM -0300, Esteban Kemp wrote: > >>I'm starting to develop a production enviroment with Postgres and >>Tomcat, And I have to choose between some free linux distribution >>like: >> >>whitebox >>RHEL >>Fedora >>Suse >> >>Which is the better distribution in terms of postgres? if this has an answer ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend