Thanks for the feedback thus far. I should also mention I use freebsd
for other stuff, but I am mainly asking in peoples experience, which is
the best for PostgreSQL to live on specifically. In terms of a nice smp
high end scsi system. Sorry for the lack of specifics on that before.
Gavin
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Gavin M. Roy wrote:
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>>I'm currently one of the targets of SCO's linux licensing extortion
>>business plan, and am contemplating switching to one of the BSD's to
>>avoid any potential problems. I'm curious which BSD people prefer for
>>large scale databases and why. Any pointers as to which I should test out?
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>for the longest time, the BSDs have been split as:
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>FreeBSD - i386 rock solid
>NetBSD - work on as many platforms as possible
>OpenBSD - be as secure as possible
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>There is alot of code sharing between them all though, so, IMHO, alot of
>it is personal preferences ... I've been using FreeBSD since '95, and
>other then having a habit of finding (and, usually pushing) its limits,
>I've been most happy with it ...
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