Re: [GENERAL] Ubuntu for servers (was TurnKey PostgreSQL)

2008-12-10 Thread Guy Rouillier
Joshua D. Drake wrote: BSD is dying. We all are, sooner or later ;) -- Guy Rouillier -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] Ubuntu for servers (was TurnKey PostgreSQL)

2008-12-10 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 15:55 -0500, Eric Schwarzenbach wrote: > > Robert Treat wrote: > > > On Tuesday 09 December 2008 19:43:02 Liraz Siri wrote: > > > > > >> Greg has a good point. Ubuntu is a bit of a moving target. In

Re: [GENERAL] Ubuntu for servers (was TurnKey PostgreSQL)

2008-12-10 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2008-12-10 at 15:55 -0500, Eric Schwarzenbach wrote: > Robert Treat wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 December 2008 19:43:02 Liraz Siri wrote: > > > >> Greg has a good point. Ubuntu is a bit of a moving target. In contrast, > >> Debian has a much slower release cycle than Ubuntu and is thus > >>

Re: [GENERAL] Ubuntu for servers (was TurnKey PostgreSQL)

2008-12-10 Thread Eric Schwarzenbach
Robert Treat wrote: > On Tuesday 09 December 2008 19:43:02 Liraz Siri wrote: > >> Greg has a good point. Ubuntu is a bit of a moving target. In contrast, >> Debian has a much slower release cycle than Ubuntu and is thus >> considered by many people to be preferable for production server >> appli

Re: [GENERAL] Ubuntu for servers (was TurnKey PostgreSQL)

2008-12-10 Thread Emanuel Calvo Franco
2008/12/10 Liraz Siri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Robert Treat wrote: >> On Tuesday 09 December 2008 19:43:02 Liraz Siri wrote: >>> Greg has a good point. Ubuntu is a bit of a moving target. In contrast, >>> Debian has a much slower release cycle than Ubuntu and is thus >>> considered by many people to

Re: [GENERAL] Ubuntu for servers (was TurnKey PostgreSQL)

2008-12-10 Thread Guy Rouillier
Liraz Siri wrote: Solaris is awesome (dtrace rocks!), but I still prefer Debian/Linux for the same reasons I prefer PostgreSQL over MySQL - its lack of dependence on any single company. OpenSolaris? -- Guy Rouillier -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make

Re: [GENERAL] Ubuntu for servers (was TurnKey PostgreSQL)

2008-12-09 Thread Liraz Siri
Robert Treat wrote: > On Tuesday 09 December 2008 19:43:02 Liraz Siri wrote: >> Greg has a good point. Ubuntu is a bit of a moving target. In contrast, >> Debian has a much slower release cycle than Ubuntu and is thus >> considered by many people to be preferable for production server >> applicatio

Re: [GENERAL] Ubuntu for servers (was TurnKey PostgreSQL)

2008-12-09 Thread Robert Treat
On Tuesday 09 December 2008 19:43:02 Liraz Siri wrote: > Greg has a good point. Ubuntu is a bit of a moving target. In contrast, > Debian has a much slower release cycle than Ubuntu and is thus > considered by many people to be preferable for production server > applications. > Another option for

Re: [GENERAL] Ubuntu for servers (was TurnKey PostgreSQL)

2008-12-09 Thread Liraz Siri
Greg has a good point. Ubuntu is a bit of a moving target. In contrast, Debian has a much slower release cycle than Ubuntu and is thus considered by many people to be preferable for production server applications. This is one of the reasons we plan on releasing appliances that are based on Debian

Re: [GENERAL] Ubuntu for servers (was TurnKey PostgreSQL)

2008-12-08 Thread Greg Smith
On Mon, 8 Dec 2008, Scott Marlowe wrote: Are you familiar with this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/linux/+bug/245779 It's the reason my latest db servers are running Centos 5.2, sadly. By the time I'd found the suggested workaround of setting a boot option of NO_HZ=y I was alrea