I do agree and really like Centos but I don't want to have to have to
admin this box myself. Our network admin likes OpenSuse and doesn't want
to have to deal with anything else.
I tried Ubuntu server a while ago and was really not impressed. It was
lacking a lot of packages that I wanted but that was a while ago.
I guess it is compile from source. yeckkk.
Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 12:51 PM, David Siebert <david@eclipsecat.com> wrote:
>> I am setting up a new server and I am using OpenSuse. OpenSuse only has
>> 8.3.1 in the repositories so I am wondering just how critical is the
>> need to update? I checked out the changed and there looks like a lot of
>> them in 8.3.2. so I am wondering if I should just install from source or
>> live with the what is in the repositories for now?
>
> If OpenSUSE only has 8.3.1 then I'd strongly advise either switching
> to a distro that updates more often (Centos or Debian or Ubuntu) or
> compiling from source. Because you're going to have this problem over
> and over again if they can't get 8.3.3 packaged up and ready to go in
> a reasonable amount of time.
>
> I like Centos because you can use the RHEL rpms from the pgsql site
> and they get updated pretty fast when a new version comes out.
>
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