Not a great help with which Linux to run, nor Postgres focused, but may be of interest, & very relevant to the subject line..
Given the likely respective numbers of each OS actually out there, I'd suggests BSD is very over-represented in the high uptime list which is suggestive. http://uptime.netcraft.com/perf/reports/performance/Hosters?orderby=epercent Cheers, Brent Wood Brent Wood Principal Technician - GIS and Spatial Data Management Programme Leader - Environmental Information Delivery +64-4-386-0529 | 301 Evans Bay Parade, Greta Point, Wellington | www.niwa.co.nz<http://www.niwa.co.nz> [NIWA]<http://www.niwa.co.nz> ________________________________________ From: pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org [pgsql-general-ow...@postgresql.org] on behalf of Fran?ois Beausoleil [franc...@teksol.info] Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 8:36 AM To: Bruce Momjian Cc: Christofer C. Bell; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD Le 2014-04-09 ? 16:20, Bruce Momjian a ?crit : On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:02:07AM -0500, Christofer C. Bell wrote: This highlights a more fundamental problem of the difference between a workstation-based on OS like Ubuntu and a server-based one like Debian or FreeBSD. I know Ubuntu has a "server" version, but fundamentally Ubuntu's selection of kernels and feature churn make it less than ideal for server deployments. I am sure someone can post that they use Ubuntu just fine for server deployments, but I continue to feel that Ubuntu is chosen by administrators because it an OS they are familiar with on workstations, rather than it being the best choice for servers. I'm not a full-time sysadmin. I chose Ubuntu because I have familiarity with it, and because installing Puppet on it installed the certificates and everything I needed to get going. I tried Debian, but I had to fight and find the correct procedures to install the Puppet certificates and all. Ubuntu saved me some time back then. Cheers! Fran?ois
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