On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 03:24:05AM +0000, Tope Akinniyi wrote: > I am wondering at this display of extreme Linux mentality being > displayed by the 'top bras' of the PostgreSQL community. And I > ask, are we encouraging Windows use of PostgreSQL at all? I don't see the "extreme Linux mentality" you mention, and in any case maybe you mean "Unix mentality," where "Unix" refers to a class of operating systems that includes but isn't limited to Linux. Subjects like "PostgreSQL still for Linux only?" are (mis)leading because PostgreSQL runs perfectly well on other Unix-like systems such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and many others, to judge from directories like src/template in the source code. Linux is popular, but it's NOT the only Unix-like operating system around. Unfortunately the public is coming to equate the two, with the word "Unix" often prompting the question, "You mean Linux?" I will concede that a lot of tools in general tend to be written for Linux, sometimes without regard to whether they'll work even on other Unix-like operating systems. But the PostgreSQL project itself appears to care about portability, so the question "Still for Linux only?" should really be directed at the third-party software that some people find useful. -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
