As a system architect, I really like Gentoo. As a system administrator (after several years of use on many servers) it frustrated me -- eventually to the point where it drove me right off the bus.
Previous suboptimal experiences with Slackware and Red Hat had led me to Gentoo. Its "bleeding-edge is good" change management process eventually drove me to Debian. I inquired about sipx on Debian some years back and received 'less than hopeful' replies. Over time, I have come to understand that distro biases are mostly about sysadmin tasks -- and the those mostly boil down to personal preference. At this point, the overwhelming majority of the Linux world has coalesced around rpm and apt for package management. While I have my own preferences, I can hardly fault a development team with limited resources when it chooses to support only one of those models. Current (template-based) virtualization platforms are on the way to eliminating distros as anything other than a footnote regardless. For the record, I prefer CentOS or Debian server platforms -- both embrace relatively conservative change management philosophies and have healthy bases of "big server" users. On Jun 18, 2012, at 13:25 , Tony Graziano wrote: > (historically, there was a gentoo build as late as version 3.8 but noone has > maintained it or shown any interest in doing so, that was about 5 years ago. > Just because there was a gentoo build "then" doesn't mean it will compile > now. Looking forward to sipx 4.6, it really ought to be determined if the > prerequisites for mongo and other new packages can be met easily before > anyone would think about pursuing it) > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Tony Graziano <tgrazi...@myitdepartment.net> > wrote: > That would also require a driver for the OS and I think you would have better > luck developing on CentOS since the build is known to work on that right now. > > In the instance of gentoo, you would need to see if all of the prerequisites > have a "gentoo" package available, then you will have to also make your own > gentoo build (I am not sure anyone has built gentoo versions before), then > you will have to write a plug-in for the modem configuration and another to > communicate "with" the modem. Then you will be the only firm out there with > gentoo and getting support would not exactly be easy with regard to sipx. > > I think it will be a lot of effort "needlessly" because you decide "gentoo" > is what you want to run it on. > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Luis Espinoza <luisman...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I am currently developing a PBX, I decided to venture with sipXecs Gentos 4.4.
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