On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 16:33, Christine Desmuke wrote: > At the risk of starting a flame-war, I'd like some more details on the > use of Gentoo Linux for a production PostgreSQL server. There have been > a couple of comments lately that it is not such a great idea; does > anyone have specific experience they'd be willing to share?
I used Gentoo for a long time on my home systems but I recently quit. It's a "fun" distro as far as the options and all, and it has a great user community for support.. but I got tired of the Gentoo developers (whether intentional or not) pushing out new stuff marked as "stable" when it obviously was not. The price was right and I knew going in I wasn't getting a perfectly stable distro, but nevertheless they left me with a broken machine on several occasions. Having a slightly faster machine isn't worth the headaches to me personally. For stability, db/web server usage and such, I'd go with Debian. For features, desktop systems, etc., I'd go with Suse. 9.1 is impressive. For security, firewall, or router usage, I'd go with *BSD. -- Greg Donald ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])