On Thursday 07 December 2006 17:42, John Novack wrote: > Carla Schroder wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 December 2006 20:12, Lacy Moore - Aspendora wrote: > >> On 12/6/06, John Novack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Go get the ISO's, and remember to INSTALL EVERYTHING, then you won't > >>> run into some "gotcha" down the road where there is some missing file > >>> that needs to be put who knows where. > >> > >> Wow! Are you sure about that? > > > > Doesn't seem like an issue to me. "yum install foo" is easy, and I've > > always preferred servers that are as lean as possible, rather than all > > porky with unnecessary packages and services. > > > > Someone else mentioned AstLinux, and it is very nice. About 40 megabytes. > > No lard at all. > > That may be true for you and those that know Linux and how to respond to > a missing file because it wasn't initially installed. > For those who don't practice Linux as a religion but simply want to use > a telephony application, it works to install everything, and move on to > learning Asterisk and all IT'S warts and gotchas, >
You're saying it's a religion to understand how to administer the operating system on a server? What a novel concept. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carla Schroder Linux geek and random computer tamer check out my Linux Cookbook! http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxckbk/ best book for sysadmins and power users ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ --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
