One thing to take into account is I dont have physical access to the
box (It is in TX, I am in PA). All installs but Gentoo will be
performed by a well trained NOC monkey. *cough*
On 7/25/07, Dave Page <dpage@postgresql.org> wrote:
>
>
> > ------- Original Message -------
> > From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> > To: Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>
> > Sent: 25/07/07, 18:54:50
> > Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Machine available for community use
> >
> > Another fairly big issue is that we need to know whether measurements we
> > take in August are comparable to measurements we take in October, so a
> > fairly stable platform is important. As you say, a fast-changing kernel
> > would make it difficult to have any confidence about comparability over
> > time. That would tend to make me vote for RHEL/Centos, where long-term
> > stability is an explicit development goal. Debian stable might do too,
> > though I'm not as clear about their update criteria as I am about Red Hat's.
>
> Perhaps RH could donate us a RHEL/RHN licence for this?
>
> /D
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