Other than for Zap cards, why would you want to switch from *BSD to linux? I don't run * on *BSD, but I've heard it runs very smoothly and stable (probably more than several linux distros).
Just curious. Thanks, Daniel -----Original Message----- From: "John Novack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thu, December 7, 2006 8:42 pm To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Switching from FreeBSD to Linux - which distro? 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, John Novack _______________________________________________ --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 _______________________________________________ --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
