What you need for this book
This book is written for Unix systems with a focus on Linux in particular. Such servers have become increasingly popular to host databases for companies both large and small. As such, we highly recommend that you have a virtual machine or development system running a recent copy of Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, or a variant such as CentOS or Scientific Linux.
You will also need a copy of PostgreSQL. If your chosen Linux distribution isn't keeping the included PostgreSQL packages sufficiently up to date, the PostgreSQL website maintains binaries for most popular distributions. You can find these at http://www.postgresql.org/download/.
Users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its variants should refer to the following ...
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