The choice depends more on what you want / need to have than what people think you want / need.
If your corporation requires a support agreement, go either with Red Hat or with SuSE (Novell).
If possible, have at least one of each of the above for a while -- one or two years -- and see what is better in your environment.
I am more prone to use SuSE (SLES) as I have OpenSuSE on my laptop for years now.
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Jorge Godoy <
jgodoy@gmail.com>
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 13:00, Michael Gould
<mgould@intermodalsoftwaresolutions.net> wrote:
I know that this is probably a "religion" issue but we are looking to move Postgres to a Linux server. We currently have a Windows 2008 R2 active directory and all of the other servers are virtualized via VMWare ESXi. One of the reasons is that we want to use a 64 bit Postgres server and the UUID processing contrib module does not provide a 64 bit version for Windows. I would also assume that the database when properly tuned will probably run faster in a *inx environment.
What and why should I look at certain distributions? It appears from what I read, Ubanta is a good desktop but not a server.
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