On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 01:03:51PM -0500, Paul wrote: > Ryan Amos wrote: > > >This is turning into a sysadmin theory flamewar, but I think the main > >point is that Fedora probably isn't the best thing to run on production > >machines for QA reasons. This is because Fedora is more or less the QA > >testbed for RHEL. CentOS is, for all intents and purposes (except a > >little bug I discovered with large block devices >2 TB) the same as RHEL > >without the support contract, so it is probably a better choice for a > >server you want to keep working for a while. > > > >Debian stable would probably work just as well (though IMO debian tends > >to be a bit TOO old,) as would SUSE's stable release version. Just don't > >use a "testing" release on a production machine. "yum update" (or > >up2date, or apt) is pretty safe on "stable" release trees, but in the > >testing releases you can run into problems with package dependencies, > >versions, slowly updated mirrors... you get the point. > > > > > > > Debian stable is not so old. No decent distro is going to do a new > stable release every time a new asterisk, openoffice, firefox, etc. is > released. That's why they call it stable. > > There are several ways to get newer asterisk versions onto a debian > stable system. The end user decides what risks to take in modifying any > stable distro. Best approach for me has been to limit those changes to > what I really must have. I take something like a new openoffice and try > it out on a debian system running testing or unstable. If I like it > enough, I find or build debian packages for the stable release. I think > this sane and careful approach works with most linux distros but I have > seen some distros where the testing or unstable branch was not > installable at times.
http://backports.org seems to be building Asterisk 1.2 relatively regularly from Unstable. We (Xorcom Rapid) also provide rather compatible Sarge backports of "all things Asterisk" -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- Asterisk-Users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
