Re: Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL
От | Gordan Bobic |
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Тема | Re: Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL |
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Msg-id | 006501c0ffad$927a7d60$800010ac@localdomain обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL (Alex Knight <knight@phunc.com>) |
Список | pgsql-general |
> 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. That proves absolutely nothing. Any sysop that installs a standard installation and hopes for the best is a fool. If you are running a production server, you will first apply all the latest patches, and switch off all the services that are not used. That will usually be a good starting point, and it only takes minutes to do. It's damn easy to say that an OS like OpenBSD is "most secure" if no services are running by default. It's almost like taking a server, switching it off, unplugging it from everything, putting it in a steel barrel, pouring concrete over it, and chucking it overboard over Mindanao Deep. I'd agree that that is pretty damn secure. But also pretty damn useless... > 2) Most commercial software made _for_ RedHat (some companies only > "support" RedHat) insist that you use RPM to install their software, > otherwise you are SOL. Most commercial software made _for_ _Linux_ > supports all distributions. What's wrong with RPM? Most software nowdays comes optionally pre-packaged using RPM. And if your distribution doesn't support RPM, then it isn't all that hard to install RPM and use that. For crying out loud, I've installed RPM on a Sun3 server that was running SunOS 4.1.1! Why? Because it made package management, installation and removal so much easier! What is the problem with RPM? Don't you know how to install it from source on a distribution that doesn't come with it? > 3) So much extra crap running to begin with, eating up extra memory, cpu, > etc. (Yeah, sure you can spend time securing and setting up the box to not > run what it shouldn't be... _OR_ you can save that wasted time (it adds up > when you are setting up 30 production machines) and run a quality > distribution like Debian or even Slackware) I am dissapointed to hear that. Surely, you STILL have to go through the startup scripts and determine what you are running, on any distribution. On RH, I use "setup", and I can have the services switched off or on as required in about 6 seconds. 30 systems x 6 seconds = 3 minutes. I think I can live with that. > I'm sure we could go on, but this isn't a Linux list :) You're right. We should stop, or at least take this off the list. Regards. Gordan
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