Like any other Distro war, it's all a matter of personal taste. For me, I prefer gentoo (although I never have any luck with the asterisk ebuild and end up building myself.. but typically, the package managment is great).
If you have 0 linux experience, there are some distros that are much easier for beginners. (e.g. Mandrake or Redhat.. and I say those are "easier" than gentoo simply because the install is much simpler and in fact there is a step by step guide on installing Redhat w/ asterisk (not sure how up to date it is): http://www.automated.it/guidetoasterisk.htm Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 02:57:11PM +0100, Frank Fischer wrote: > >>Hi all >> >>i'm just starting to setup my "own" asterisk. My first question is, if there >>is any reason to choose a special linux distribution or if it doesn't mater >>which distribution i chosse. Is there anything i should be aware of? > > > If you want a proper distribution with Asterisk as a part of it, and not > just asterisk (an a handful of supporting libraries) slapped on top of > an existing distro, you should try Xorcom Rapid, or Debian in General. > > Xorcom Rapid is a Debian-based minimal installation of Debian Sarge with > the stable version of Asterisk. > _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list Asterisk-Users@lists.digium.com http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users