I'm a BSD license fan, but, I don't know much about *BSD otherwise (except that many advocates say it runs PG very nicely). On the Linux side, unless your a dweeb, go with a newer, popular & well supported release for Production. IMHO, that's RHEL 5.x or CentOS 5.x. Of course the latest SLES & UBuntu schtuff are also fine.
In other words, unless you've got a really good reason for it, stay away from Fedora & OpenSuse for production usage. On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:10 PM, <da...@lang.hm> wrote: > On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, S Arvind wrote: > > Hi everyone, >> What is the best Linux flavor for server which runs postgres alone. >> The postgres must handle greater number of database around 200+. >> Performance >> on speed is the vital factor. >> Is it FreeBSD, CentOS, Fedora, Redhat xxx?? >> > > as noted by others *BSD is not linux > > among the linux options, the best option is the one that you as a company > are most comfortable with (and have the support/upgrade processes in place > for) > > in general, the newer the kernel the better things will work, but it's far > better to have an 'old' system that your sysadmins understand well and can > support easily than a 'new' system that they don't know well and therefor > have trouble supporting. > > David Lang > > -- > Sent via pgsql-performance mailing list (pgsql-performance@postgresql.org) > To make changes to your subscription: > http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-performance >
