-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, Just to throw in my 2 cents worth, I have been evaluating most of the 'big' distro's for my Asterisk platform and since I've used almost all of them I kept the pre-requisites to these standard options.
1. Package management - easy to administer, easy to upgrade and include development packages 2. System stability - Gotta be rock solid 3. Proprietary Code - It must be all open source 4. Standards Compliant With a lot of testing, compiling and downloading I came to the conclusion that the winner was Debian 'Etch' Reason: 1. Apt - The best package management system ever. 2. Rock solid platform, my other Debian servers have been running for years (and so have my CentOS servers so I'm not being biased) 3. The software is all open source. 4. I have a requirement for H323 in the vast majority of my asterisk boxes and it compiles brilliantly with Etch 5. 1 CD install - The Net-Install CD makes things neat 6. Slow release cycle and easy upgrade to latest version once released. CentOS came a very close second however it was the apt difference that clinched it for Debian. I would have went Ubuntu instead of Debian however the packages are not quite as concise and I'm still not sure on the whole 'sudo' method of security, its great for a desktop but the jury is still out on a server. Regards, Alan love U.all wrote: | i wanna build a production Asterisk box ,will RedHat Linux Enterprise | Server be more stable than Fedora core Linux or it makes no significant | difference | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! MSN Messenger | <http://clk.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/> | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | _______________________________________________ | -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- | | asterisk-users mailing list | To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: | http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users - -- Alan Hanley FSF Member 4949 Windows is a half-baked, dying OS that in essence is a 32 bit extension and graphical shell, for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system, originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHpkl3MRbQISW5zV8RAoBLAJ9Ga/dGRyZkQeBwrBNTVkIA5+jZtwCeLBO8 xNEKOPuH8t+lzRG7OUb7ChI= =lAyF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users