Re: Linux distro

From: Douglas McNaught <doug(at)mcnaught(dot)org>
To: "Brian Mathis" <brian(dot)mathis(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Joseph S" <jks(at)selectacast(dot)net>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Linux distro
Date: 2007-08-01 17:46:49
Message-ID: 87abtbgnau.fsf@suzuka.mcnaught.org
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"Brian Mathis" <brian(dot)mathis(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:

> Please don't start this. These issues are exactly why one should be
> looking at an ENTERPRISE OS for a server. Fedora, ubuntu, etc... are
> not enterprise OSes, and any discussion of such issues are certainly
> off-topic for this mailing list. An enterprise OS has all of the
> dependency issues ironed out already.

Like Debian? BTW, HP has provided enterprise Debian support for a
while now. I think Ubuntu will be there soon, but as you say the
track record isn't there yet.

> Incidentally, I really think that all of the "apt lovers" out there
> jumped to Debian in the days before tools like yum existed, and have
> not been paying attention to the changes made since. You are correct
> that yum handles most of the dependency issues, and it is certainly on
> par with apt in any modern system.

Mostly agree; I was just staggered that anyone could consider bare RPM
(and the OP didn't mention yum or apt/rpm) as superior to apt on
Debian/Ubuntu.

-Doug

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