I would say that if you pick any of the big four you will be fine. CentOS Ubuntu Server LTS Red Hat Suse Debian can also be a good choice. We used to be an OpenSuse shop but we are now moving everything to Ubuntu Server LTS. I can not say enough good things about CentOS as far as stability and long support times.
On 11/4/2010 11:00 AM, Michael Gould wrote: > > I know that this is probably a "religion" issue but we are looking to > move Postgres to a Linux server. We currently have a Windows 2008 R2 > active directory and all of the other servers are virtualized via > VMWare ESXi. One of the reasons is that we want to use a 64 bit > Postgres server and the UUID processing contrib module does not > provide a 64 bit version for Windows. I would also assume that the > database when properly tuned will probably run faster in a *inx > environment. > > What and why should I look at certain distributions? It appears from > what I read, Ubanta is a good desktop but not a server. > > > > Best Regards > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Michael Gould, Managing Partner > Intermodal Software Solutions, LLC > 904.226.0978 > 904.592.5250 fax
