Re: [Asterisk-Users] which distro for asterisk?
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:26:58AM -0700, Paul Mahler wrote: The Mepis Debian distro is pre-configured for *, www.mepis.org They spent a lot of time making Mepis work with * out of the box. In what ways (comparing to the Debian packages)? -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+ ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] which distro for asterisk?
Paul Mahler wrote: The Mepis Debian distro is pre-configured for *, www.mepis.org They spent a lot of time making Mepis work with * out of the box. Erm the only issue with debian is they would have to do is mess with the kernel module packages for digium hardware, even then it's not very hard, then again if you grab a couple of external sip devices and a voip-pstn provider you don't even need to do that... -- Best regards, Duane http://www.cacert.org - Free Security Certificates http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom http://happysnapper.com.au - Sell your photos over the net! http://e164.org - Using Enum.164 to interconnect asterisk servers I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] which distro for asterisk?
The Mepis Debian distro is pre-configured for *, www.mepis.org They spent a lot of time making Mepis work with * out of the box. Everyone has their own very strong opinions on which distro is better. I'm not about to get into that. All I can say is Mepis is probably your fastest easiest way to get * running. You can get Linux installed and * running VERY quickly if you start with Mepis. Hope this helps, Paul Paul Mahler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signate, LLC 665 Third Street Suite 100 San Francisco, CA 94107-1901 Asterisk Services and Training -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tzafrir Cohen Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 6:07 AM To: Asterisk Users List Subject: [Asterisk-Users] which distro for asterisk? Hi I want to play a bit with Asterisk. I currentlly install a new system for that and I would like to get your recommendations regarding the linux distro to use there. This is NOT intended to become a general distro flame war. My favorite distro is and no argument that you flame will convince me here (probably because I've heard it before). However I would like to minimize the OS maintinance task. I really wouldn't like to start worrying about upgrading sshd due to some stupid secuirty hole, and to worry what will it break on my system. I expect my distro to do that for me. I'd also like to have solid astrisk packages that won't break unnecessarily when the sshd package is updated next time. Hopefully also some sort of integration of zaptel in the distro's kernel package. I saw numerous complaints about unofficial RPM packages of asterisk. Besides them, the following free distros include asterisk packages: 1. Debian: http://packages.debian.org/asterisk . 2. Gentoo: Current package seems to be version 0.9.0 from 10-May-2004 3. The DAG repository for RH/Fedora: http://dag.wieers.com/packages/asterisk/ I have some experince with Debian, Mandrake and RedHat/Fedora. I'm unfamiliar with Gentoo and I have no good/bad experince with DAG packages with respect to quality and stability. Any recommendations, relevant experince and other learned opinions? thx -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+ ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] which distro for asterisk?
Are the test versions configured for * out of the box? Mike C. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Mahler Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 1:27 PM To: 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion' Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] which distro for asterisk? The Mepis Debian distro is pre-configured for *, www.mepis.org They spent a lot of time making Mepis work with * out of the box. Everyone has their own very strong opinions on which distro is better. I'm not about to get into that. All I can say is Mepis is probably your fastest easiest way to get * running. You can get Linux installed and * running VERY quickly if you start with Mepis. Hope this helps, Paul Paul Mahler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Signate, LLC 665 Third Street Suite 100 San Francisco, CA 94107-1901 Asterisk Services and Training -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tzafrir Cohen Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 6:07 AM To: Asterisk Users List Subject: [Asterisk-Users] which distro for asterisk? Hi I want to play a bit with Asterisk. I currentlly install a new system for that and I would like to get your recommendations regarding the linux distro to use there. This is NOT intended to become a general distro flame war. My favorite distro is and no argument that you flame will convince me here (probably because I've heard it before). However I would like to minimize the OS maintinance task. I really wouldn't like to start worrying about upgrading sshd due to some stupid secuirty hole, and to worry what will it break on my system. I expect my distro to do that for me. I'd also like to have solid astrisk packages that won't break unnecessarily when the sshd package is updated next time. Hopefully also some sort of integration of zaptel in the distro's kernel package. I saw numerous complaints about unofficial RPM packages of asterisk. Besides them, the following free distros include asterisk packages: 1. Debian: http://packages.debian.org/asterisk . 2. Gentoo: Current package seems to be version 0.9.0 from 10-May-2004 3. The DAG repository for RH/Fedora: http://dag.wieers.com/packages/asterisk/ I have some experince with Debian, Mandrake and RedHat/Fedora. I'm unfamiliar with Gentoo and I have no good/bad experince with DAG packages with respect to quality and stability. Any recommendations, relevant experince and other learned opinions? thx -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+ ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] which distro for asterisk?
We discussed this earlier and I believe the general consensus was that it's personal choice. I've personally used Asterisk on Redhat 9.0, Fedora Core 1 and Gentoo 2004.2 Each has required some minor securing and cleaning up, but Redhat/Fedora tended to need more babying as far as securing default configs and speeding up certain things. But after a little bit of time with it, I had it running efficient and Asterisk loved it. The main problem I found with Redhat/Fedora was the default kernel, the sources are all messed up and the zaptel/libpri drivers didn't compile quite right. I simply downloaded the latest kernel, compiled it (and set it to my specific hardware to conserve memory) and libpri/zaptel compiled fine. Personally I'm now using Gentoo. What I did with Gentoo was emerge asterisk-0.9.0 or whatever, and it handled all the dependencies for more. When I was done with that, I did a emerge cvs and once I had cvs I downloaded, compiled and upgraded to the latest libpri/zaptel/asterisk, just did a make upgrade. Gentoo tends to be a faster OS and more efficient with resources, it gives you bare minimum. Which sometimes is good, for security and such, but also a pain when it comes to standard interaction. ie by default they don't include ftp or telnet and traceroute just commands I'm used to having, nothing I can't emerge though. In the end, it's personal choice. For now I've gone with Gentoo. Asterisk really isn't that resource intensive, it seems to like memory a lot, but other than that I don't see it putting heavy loads on my systems, and the speed difference between two identical machines, one with with Fedora Core 1 and one with Gentoo, is almost imperceivable when it comes to working with Asterisk, (ie, the IVR and playback of messages, and interacting with the voicemail system, etc.). Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Hi I want to play a bit with Asterisk. I currentlly install a new system for that and I would like to get your recommendations regarding the linux distro to use there. This is NOT intended to become a general distro flame war. My favorite distro is and no argument that you flame will convince me here (probably because I've heard it before). However I would like to minimize the OS maintinance task. I really wouldn't like to start worrying about upgrading sshd due to some stupid secuirty hole, and to worry what will it break on my system. I expect my distro to do that for me. I'd also like to have solid astrisk packages that won't break unnecessarily when the sshd package is updated next time. Hopefully also some sort of integration of zaptel in the distro's kernel package. I saw numerous complaints about unofficial RPM packages of asterisk. Besides them, the following free distros include asterisk packages: 1. Debian: http://packages.debian.org/asterisk . 2. Gentoo: Current package seems to be version 0.9.0 from 10-May-2004 3. The DAG repository for RH/Fedora: http://dag.wieers.com/packages/asterisk/ I have some experince with Debian, Mandrake and RedHat/Fedora. I'm unfamiliar with Gentoo and I have no good/bad experince with DAG packages with respect to quality and stability. Any recommendations, relevant experince and other learned opinions? thx ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] which distro for asterisk?
I'm using it on Debian Stable (Woody), works great, using it with the backports.org 2.6.7-1-686-smp kernel, zaptel drivers compile fine with their headers. I think it's all a matter of personal preference. I prefer Debian, so I use it, use whatever you like best :) -Tim -Original Message- From: Deon Rodden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 9:23 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] which distro for asterisk? We discussed this earlier and I believe the general consensus was that it's personal choice. I've personally used Asterisk on Redhat 9.0, Fedora Core 1 and Gentoo 2004.2 Each has required some minor securing and cleaning up, but Redhat/Fedora tended to need more babying as far as securing default configs and speeding up certain things. But after a little bit of time with it, I had it running efficient and Asterisk loved it. The main problem I found with Redhat/Fedora was the default kernel, the sources are all messed up and the zaptel/libpri drivers didn't compile quite right. I simply downloaded the latest kernel, compiled it (and set it to my specific hardware to conserve memory) and libpri/zaptel compiled fine. Personally I'm now using Gentoo. What I did with Gentoo was emerge asterisk-0.9.0 or whatever, and it handled all the dependencies for more. When I was done with that, I did a emerge cvs and once I had cvs I downloaded, compiled and upgraded to the latest libpri/zaptel/asterisk, just did a make upgrade. Gentoo tends to be a faster OS and more efficient with resources, it gives you bare minimum. Which sometimes is good, for security and such, but also a pain when it comes to standard interaction. ie by default they don't include ftp or telnet and traceroute just commands I'm used to having, nothing I can't emerge though. In the end, it's personal choice. For now I've gone with Gentoo. Asterisk really isn't that resource intensive, it seems to like memory a lot, but other than that I don't see it putting heavy loads on my systems, and the speed difference between two identical machines, one with with Fedora Core 1 and one with Gentoo, is almost imperceivable when it comes to working with Asterisk, (ie, the IVR and playback of messages, and interacting with the voicemail system, etc.). Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Hi I want to play a bit with Asterisk. I currentlly install a new system for that and I would like to get your recommendations regarding the linux distro to use there. This is NOT intended to become a general distro flame war. My favorite distro is and no argument that you flame will convince me here (probably because I've heard it before). However I would like to minimize the OS maintinance task. I really wouldn't like to start worrying about upgrading sshd due to some stupid secuirty hole, and to worry what will it break on my system. I expect my distro to do that for me. I'd also like to have solid astrisk packages that won't break unnecessarily when the sshd package is updated next time. Hopefully also some sort of integration of zaptel in the distro's kernel package. I saw numerous complaints about unofficial RPM packages of asterisk. Besides them, the following free distros include asterisk packages: 1. Debian: http://packages.debian.org/asterisk . 2. Gentoo: Current package seems to be version 0.9.0 from 10-May-2004 3. The DAG repository for RH/Fedora: http://dag.wieers.com/packages/asterisk/ I have some experince with Debian, Mandrake and RedHat/Fedora. I'm unfamiliar with Gentoo and I have no good/bad experince with DAG packages with respect to quality and stability. Any recommendations, relevant experince and other learned opinions? thx ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
RE: [Asterisk-Users] which distro for asterisk?
I've been having troubles compiling in the openh323 on both redhat and debian... one of the biggest problems I had w/ Debian is it couldn't find alot of libraries like termcap etc... Has anyone else ran into these problems? -Original Message- From: Tim Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:31 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] which distro for asterisk? I'm using it on Debian Stable (Woody), works great, using it with the backports.org 2.6.7-1-686-smp kernel, zaptel drivers compile fine with their headers. I think it's all a matter of personal preference. I prefer Debian, so I use it, use whatever you like best :) -Tim -Original Message- From: Deon Rodden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 9:23 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] which distro for asterisk? We discussed this earlier and I believe the general consensus was that it's personal choice. I've personally used Asterisk on Redhat 9.0, Fedora Core 1 and Gentoo 2004.2 Each has required some minor securing and cleaning up, but Redhat/Fedora tended to need more babying as far as securing default configs and speeding up certain things. But after a little bit of time with it, I had it running efficient and Asterisk loved it. The main problem I found with Redhat/Fedora was the default kernel, the sources are all messed up and the zaptel/libpri drivers didn't compile quite right. I simply downloaded the latest kernel, compiled it (and set it to my specific hardware to conserve memory) and libpri/zaptel compiled fine. Personally I'm now using Gentoo. What I did with Gentoo was emerge asterisk-0.9.0 or whatever, and it handled all the dependencies for more. When I was done with that, I did a emerge cvs and once I had cvs I downloaded, compiled and upgraded to the latest libpri/zaptel/asterisk, just did a make upgrade. Gentoo tends to be a faster OS and more efficient with resources, it gives you bare minimum. Which sometimes is good, for security and such, but also a pain when it comes to standard interaction. ie by default they don't include ftp or telnet and traceroute just commands I'm used to having, nothing I can't emerge though. In the end, it's personal choice. For now I've gone with Gentoo. Asterisk really isn't that resource intensive, it seems to like memory a lot, but other than that I don't see it putting heavy loads on my systems, and the speed difference between two identical machines, one with with Fedora Core 1 and one with Gentoo, is almost imperceivable when it comes to working with Asterisk, (ie, the IVR and playback of messages, and interacting with the voicemail system, etc.). Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Hi I want to play a bit with Asterisk. I currentlly install a new system for that and I would like to get your recommendations regarding the linux distro to use there. This is NOT intended to become a general distro flame war. My favorite distro is and no argument that you flame will convince me here (probably because I've heard it before). However I would like to minimize the OS maintinance task. I really wouldn't like to start worrying about upgrading sshd due to some stupid secuirty hole, and to worry what will it break on my system. I expect my distro to do that for me. I'd also like to have solid astrisk packages that won't break unnecessarily when the sshd package is updated next time. Hopefully also some sort of integration of zaptel in the distro's kernel package. I saw numerous complaints about unofficial RPM packages of asterisk. Besides them, the following free distros include asterisk packages: 1. Debian: http://packages.debian.org/asterisk . 2. Gentoo: Current package seems to be version 0.9.0 from 10-May-2004 3. The DAG repository for RH/Fedora: http://dag.wieers.com/packages/asterisk/ I have some experince with Debian, Mandrake and RedHat/Fedora. I'm unfamiliar with Gentoo and I have no good/bad experince with DAG packages with respect to quality and stability. Any recommendations, relevant experince and other learned opinions? thx ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Re: [Asterisk-Users] which distro for asterisk?
I had that problem, but apt-get install did the trick. On Tuesday 31 August 2004 02:53 pm, Huddleston, Robert wrote: I've been having troubles compiling in the openh323 on both redhat and debian... one of the biggest problems I had w/ Debian is it couldn't find alot of libraries like termcap etc... Has anyone else ran into these problems? -Original Message- From: Tim Jackson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:31 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] which distro for asterisk? I'm using it on Debian Stable (Woody), works great, using it with the backports.org 2.6.7-1-686-smp kernel, zaptel drivers compile fine with their headers. I think it's all a matter of personal preference. I prefer Debian, so I use it, use whatever you like best :) -Tim -Original Message- From: Deon Rodden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 9:23 AM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] which distro for asterisk? We discussed this earlier and I believe the general consensus was that it's personal choice. I've personally used Asterisk on Redhat 9.0, Fedora Core 1 and Gentoo 2004.2 Each has required some minor securing and cleaning up, but Redhat/Fedora tended to need more babying as far as securing default configs and speeding up certain things. But after a little bit of time with it, I had it running efficient and Asterisk loved it. The main problem I found with Redhat/Fedora was the default kernel, the sources are all messed up and the zaptel/libpri drivers didn't compile quite right. I simply downloaded the latest kernel, compiled it (and set it to my specific hardware to conserve memory) and libpri/zaptel compiled fine. Personally I'm now using Gentoo. What I did with Gentoo was emerge asterisk-0.9.0 or whatever, and it handled all the dependencies for more. When I was done with that, I did a emerge cvs and once I had cvs I downloaded, compiled and upgraded to the latest libpri/zaptel/asterisk, just did a make upgrade. Gentoo tends to be a faster OS and more efficient with resources, it gives you bare minimum. Which sometimes is good, for security and such, but also a pain when it comes to standard interaction. ie by default they don't include ftp or telnet and traceroute just commands I'm used to having, nothing I can't emerge though. In the end, it's personal choice. For now I've gone with Gentoo. Asterisk really isn't that resource intensive, it seems to like memory a lot, but other than that I don't see it putting heavy loads on my systems, and the speed difference between two identical machines, one with with Fedora Core 1 and one with Gentoo, is almost imperceivable when it comes to working with Asterisk, (ie, the IVR and playback of messages, and interacting with the voicemail system, etc.). Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Hi I want to play a bit with Asterisk. I currentlly install a new system for that and I would like to get your recommendations regarding the linux distro to use there. This is NOT intended to become a general distro flame war. My favorite distro is and no argument that you flame will convince me here (probably because I've heard it before). However I would like to minimize the OS maintinance task. I really wouldn't like to start worrying about upgrading sshd due to some stupid secuirty hole, and to worry what will it break on my system. I expect my distro to do that for me. I'd also like to have solid astrisk packages that won't break unnecessarily when the sshd package is updated next time. Hopefully also some sort of integration of zaptel in the distro's kernel package. I saw numerous complaints about unofficial RPM packages of asterisk. Besides them, the following free distros include asterisk packages: 1. Debian: http://packages.debian.org/asterisk . 2. Gentoo: Current package seems to be version 0.9.0 from 10-May-2004 3. The DAG repository for RH/Fedora: http://dag.wieers.com/packages/asterisk/ I have some experince with Debian, Mandrake and RedHat/Fedora. I'm unfamiliar with Gentoo and I have no good/bad experince with DAG packages with respect to quality and stability. Any recommendations, relevant experince and other learned opinions? thx ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list
Re: [Asterisk-Users] which distro for asterisk?
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 11:02:30AM +, Brian Wilkins wrote: I had that problem, but apt-get install did the trick. Not to mention apt-get source and apt-get build-dep if you need to patch existing packages -- Tzafrir Cohen +---+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---+ ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
