We run postgresql over the xfs filesystem, which has very high performance and a nice dump facility for when you need it. So I would recommend a distribution -- Suse, Mandrake, Gentoo or Knoppix (a Debian variant) -- that supports it out of the box, though you can use the installer CD from SGI, along with the RedHat distro CDs, if you're stuck on RedHat (that's what we do for historical reasons, but I don't recommend it for someone starting anew). Here's one way to look at it: if you want a fast moving distribution with a BSD ports-like packaging system, choose Gentoo; if you like Debian, but want up-more recent versions of various packages "out of the box", choose Knopper; if you want commercial support choose Suse or Mandrake, or even Redhat/SGI_XFS. If your main criterion is ease of use, and you think you'd like XFS, choose Suse or Mandrake.
Cheers,
Murthy
Whichever one you prefer, it doesn't matter much. I know it comes packaged with and is supported by Redhat.
what linux plataform do you recomend to install postgresql...
i got a dual p3 Dell server with 528 MB of ram, raid 3 20G
and i need to install linux, but what linux install?
:-) Sidar Lopez Cruz
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