"There are people who will support your Debian / Centos / whatever boxes."
If it is OK to ask on a non-commercial list, do you have a list of reliable O/S support folks. By this I mean companies with a support staff, as opposed to a really bright and talented guy who does it between classes in school. Historically our projects were on big HP iron with HP-UX support from HP THX Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 02:34:36AM -0400, Al Baker wrote: > >> Helps a bunch !!! >> One follow up question - out of all of your possible choices for the OS >> how did you pick *Debian*. >> I 'm not saying is bad, I just know nothing about the particular disto. >> and and very curious what >> it brought to the table that made you pick over say *RedHat* - where you >> can *buy support *or *SUSE* - where you can *buy support*. My fear from >> hell is that I' get 50 or 60 of these boxes in, start having kernel >> panics, and have no damn body to help except the folks on mailing lists. >> Mind you these are often really smart people, very generously giving of >> their time, but not quite the say as a manned/paid support organization. >> > > What exactly is supported? > > Specifically, RHEL does not include Zaptel. And is not likely to include > the kernel Zaptel modules until Zaptel comes closer to mainline kernel. > > SLES includes a Zaptel package of its own. 1.2.4 . > > Will they support a system that has unsupported kernel code? > > > What is the alternative? buy support elsewhere. There are people who > will support your Debian / Centos / whatever boxes. With RHEL and SuSE > you have to buy support. With Debian it is optional. > > _______________________________________________ -- 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
