Matt Riddell wrote: > Steve Totaro wrote: >> I am bringing up several Fedora Core 7 boxen into production now. >> >> Besides a knee jerk reaction that "Fedora Sucks", can someone give a >> real argument as to why I should or should not use it for production? >> (besides the several MB of yum updates daily, which to me is a good thing). >> >> Besides naming a flavor and saying "It is the best", can someone add a >> few statements as to why, which will obviously have to compare the other >> flavors.
> At the end of the day, the problem I see with Fedora is that they do > things slightly differently from other OSes in the placement of files > etc, which can cause headaches you wouldn't see on others. Exactly. I had some difficulties on Fedora as well (can't remember what kind of problem it was - something about zaptel I think) while it "just worked" for me on Debian or CentOS. (@Steve: So Fedora sucks and Debian is the best ;-) > However, there are so many people using Fedora/CentOS/Redhat Enterprise > that a quick search of Google will normally reveal the result. While I'm curious if there is a "best OS" for Asterisk it probably boils down to the simple rule: Use whatever OS you are familiar with and stick to it. If you're used to Debian then CentOS is "a bit different" too. Unless someone can prove <whatever OS> is best for Asterisk I'd recommend to use a mainstream distribution. Although I have compiled Asterisk on MacOSX myself this wouldn't be my first choice for a production server - mainly because the whole file system layout is so different and there isn't really an integrated package management. > A lot of the differences between distros comes from their choice of > package management systems. > > Once you've used urpmi, yum, up2date, apt-get etc a few times it doesn't > really make too much difference which one you're using. Right. But once you need a more complex set of software tools it's a great timesaver to know what the packages are called on a system and what's in there. A word on SuSE: To my impression YaST is an essential part of it. On the one hand I like it but on the other - well, you can shoot yourself in the foot. It tries to be smart and parse all kinds of /etc/* files and doesn't always do a good job. Setting up a DHCP server with some classes and pools for example is almost a piece of cake on Debian. On SuSE it's more like this: Um, I could edit /etc/dhcpd.conf directly but then the next time someone edits the settings with YaST they'd really mess things up - without even knowing. I'm so glad nobody in this thread has argued for using Windows. ;) (It doesn't even come with an ssh client! You really feel like your hands are tied.) Regards, Philipp Kempgen -- amooma GmbH - Bachstr. 126 - 56566 Neuwied - http://www.amooma.de Let's use IT to solve problems and not to create new ones. Asterisk? -> http://www.das-asterisk-buch.de My pick of the month: rfc 2822 3.6.5 Geschäftsführer: Stefan Wintermeyer Handelsregister: Neuwied B 14998 _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
