db's RE: [wplug] which one?

[harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Smith, Edward wrote:

> For a server like this My choice of distros would be Debian or Slackware.
> However for someone new to working with linux I'd stick with RedHat. Their
> new up2date service makes getting security patches a breeze.
> 
> As for oracle, if you can avoid it do so. It took me two weeks to get oracle
> to run on my sparc with 256Mb RAM. I'd much rather use PostgreSQL, MySQL ot
> interbase. I only use it because my current client insists that we use it.

i also prefer postgresql. the only really annoying thing i have noticed is
the 8k limit on fields, and that should be fixed pretty soon. if you can
use a free solution, it would be a good idea.

--
john