-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/01/07 10:37, Owen Hartnett wrote: > At 4:52 PM +0200 8/1/07, Leif B. Kristensen wrote: >> On Wednesday 1. August 2007 16:15, Madison Kelly wrote: >> >>> /Personally/, I love Debian on servers. >>> >>> It's not quite as 'hardcore' as Gentoo (a great distro, but not one to >>> start with!). It's the foundation of many of the popular distros >>> (Ubuntu, Mepis, Knoppix, etc) and the Debian crew is very careful >>> about what they put into the 'stable' repositories. >> >> I agree totally. Debian in a server configuration is quite easy to get >> started with, and is rock solid. My first Linux "test server" (my old >> Pentium 133 MHz desktop) way back in 2002 ran Debian Woody. I kept it >> running until it died from old age a couple of years ago. Later I fell >> in love with Gentoo. But if I'd have to run a server with maximum >> stability and uptime, I think that I'd still prefer Debian. > > As an alternative viewpoint, I've been running the latest postgres on > Mac OS X Server 10.4, and it's been great for me. It was my first time > using a server, and my first serious use of postgres (although I have > had a lot of previous unix experience.) All the power of unix, all the > ease of the Macintosh (and it's server installation gives you lots of Pardon me for being the contrarian, but why does a server need a GUI? Isn't that just extra RAM & CPU overhead that could be more profitably put to use powering the application? > great things for free and already installed - granted most is publicly > available, but it's already installed and ready for use that's the big > advantage). Not only that, but I can run windoze in Parallels (or even > Boot Camp if I desired). - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGsUJ4S9HxQb37XmcRAggtAKCfNxfv4/+Qmwt/89jiun4jWsM/FACeMMld zyDp6ec4t12RF6XGnEE3uUg= =E95M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
