You should build you Asterisk box as a dedicated system not as a desktop with and Asterisk server built in.. :)
This is certainly true for production use. However, I'm also happily running Asterisk for development and testing on my desktop machine under Gentoo, running Eclipse, Mozilla, X, OpenOffice, etc. There's no reason you shouldn't do this. If you want it to be able to handle higher loads and be less prone to breaking up audio when the box is under load, just nice the Asterisk process to some low value when you start it so it gets prioritized over X, etc. I'm also running some custom Java-based SIP IVR software on the same production server as the Asterisk+E400P that routes PSTN calls to it, which is working well.
-- Alastair Maw Systems Analyst - MX Telecom http://www.mxtelecom.com
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