Re: Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Steve Wolfe
Subject Re: Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL
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Msg-id 004d01c0ff58$d6957d60$13c0e43f@codon.com
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In response to Re: Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL  (Alex Knight <knight@phunc.com>)
Responses Re: Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL  (Alex Knight <knight@phunc.com>)
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> > 1) Distribution of Linux to have the largest number of "out of the box"
> > security holes. Check back and look at the security reports. Count them
if
> > you insist.
>
> And check for the number of them being Red Hat specific.

  I consider things like the portmapper being enabled by default Red Hat
specific.

> > 3) So much extra crap running to begin with, eating up extra memory,
cpu,
> > etc.
>
> You're obviously unfamiliar with it.

   I don't know, I generaly turn off at least half of the services that are
enabled by default, which free up quite a bit of memory.

steve


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