What Digium is using is rpath, RHEL /Centos On 8/25/07, Philipp Kempgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 >
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