On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 11:55, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Gavin M. Roy wrote: > > > I'm currently one of the targets of SCO's linux licensing extortion > > business plan, and am contemplating switching to one of the BSD's to > > avoid any potential problems. I'm curious which BSD people prefer for > > large scale databases and why. Any pointers as to which I should test out? > > for the longest time, the BSDs have been split as: > > FreeBSD - i386 rock solid > NetBSD - work on as many platforms as possible > OpenBSD - be as secure as possible > > There is alot of code sharing between them all though, so, IMHO, alot of > it is personal preferences ... I've been using FreeBSD since '95, and > other then having a habit of finding (and, usually pushing) its limits, > I've been most happy with it ... > > > ---- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your > joining column's datatypes do not match
Of course SCO is planning to sue the BSD users, too, so it's not really a solution. Just ignore them :) Stephen
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