On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 3:03 PM, David Siebert <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I do agree and really like Centos but I don't want to have to have to > admin this box myself. Our network admin likes OpenSuse and doesn't want > to have to deal with anything else. I've found that adminning a dedicated pgsql box is usually pretty easy once it's set up and running, but I get what you're saying there. If your network admin likes OpenSuse, then it's up to him to keep pgsql up to date I'd guess. > I tried Ubuntu server a while ago and was really not impressed. It was > lacking a lot of packages that I wanted but that was a while ago. > I guess it is compile from source. yeckkk. You likely weren't pointing at the right repositories. I've found that once you get your repos set up in debian / ubuntu, it gets MUCH easier to work with. I especially like the ability to run multiple pgsql versions and upgrade from one to the next easily. However, Ubuntu's tendency to release with questionable kernels (see 8.04 LTS initial release) make me leary of anything they put out less than 6 months or so old. I've never had to build much of anything from source on ubuntu, except slony on 7.10 for pgsql 8.3.3. I'm more a fan of centos, but have to give grudging respect to the latest couple of versions of ubuntu server. Once you learn the new way of doing things, it's quite easy to keep happy.
