Hi Richard,
Solaris 8 INTEL is very stable and free for commercial use :
http://www.sun.com/solaris/
You can download it directly from the web too (full version, no timeouts
or anything holding back):
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/download.html
It's kind of picky about which hardware it will work on though. There
is a list at :
http://soldc.sun.com/support/drivers/hcl/8/101/BOOK.htm
If you have hardware it likes, I'd go with Solaris INTEL, otherwise one
of the BSD crowd (known for stability) or Linux.
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
Richard Boyes wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I'm in the process of making some decisions as to
> what OS I should be using for a product that development
> will begin on soon. It's a web based thing using postgres,
> apache etc and will be all on one machine.
>
> My question is to what operating system would be a better
> one to use for postgres. ie linux/bsd.
>
> I know postgres works fine on both but some opinion
> from the postgres developer community as to which OS
> they prefer would have a bearing on this decision.
>
> PS sorry in advance for posting a question that might
> spark a lot of opinions.
>
> Thanks
> Richard.
>
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