Hmm...
I also use 64 bit Fedora 16, on an AMD quad core at home, and on a dual
Xeon quad cores at work.
For a desktop environment, I would recommend xfce for serious work over
GNOME 3. However, GNOME 3 is fine if you prefer fashion over
functionality. I have 25 virtual desktops, and make full use of not only
multiple tabs on Firefox, but also on the nautilus directory and GNOME
terminal windows -- I also have useful applets on panels that auto hide,
etc., GNOME 2 could support that, but not GNOME 3!
What are the problems of Java 7 on FC16? I am curious, as I am building
a system using Java 7 on FC16 using JBoss 7.1 backed by PostgreSQL 9.1.
If anyone is interested, I have a bash script that installs JBoss 7.1
and converts it to use PostgreSQL.
Cheers,
Gavin
On 06/03/12 01:25, r d wrote:
>>
>> If we move to Linux, what is the preferred Linux for running Postgres
>> on. This machine would be dedicated to the database only.=20
>>
>> I'd like a recommendation for both a GUI hosted version and a non-GUI
>> version. I haven't used Linux in the past but did spend several year s
>> in a mixed Unix and IBM mainframe environment at the console level.
I run PostgreSQL on Fedora Core 16 64bit and have never had problems,
now or before.
From that point of view I can recommend FC, but I don't know how it
compares
performance-wise to other distros.
I have been using the FC series since they split from the "RedHat
Linux" distribs at about "RedHat 9",
perhaps 10 years ago and have never missed anything, and seldom
noticed troublesome behavior.
My main criticism of FC is that the distro updates to a new version
quite often, 1-2 times per year,
and upgrades are seldom as smooth as they are supposed/advertised to
be, but they have become
much better.
Beyond that, the FC series have about everything you need for
development or anything else,
like running PG
You can use FC both with GUI and without. It comes by default with
GNOME. It also has
KDE, which looks (and works) similar to Windows. Both Gnome and KDE
run atop X.
FC has the usual Unix shells like bash (default), sh, ksh, csh, tcsh
... and if you need
to connect to your host, there are several 3270 emulator available,
for X and also text-mode.
Two components which do not mix well with FC are Java 7 (1.7.0x) and
Oracle RDBMS 11g.
For Java, stay with the 1.6 series until the problems of 1.7 are
fixed. If you need to use the RDBMS
besides PG then FC is not your OS. Instead, look at what systems they
(Oracle) "support".
I hope this helps you with your decision.
