Many years in telecom and computer world is around 100 year in real life.. 10 years ago i was a millionaire in the dot com boom and 24 years old with a P2 300 computer.., 20 years ago i was military engineer and running on 3.76 MHz 386's amber screens.. last year it was dual cores, today its quad/opt cores, and tomorrow morning it's going to be quantum physics/organic computers and VOIP will be of the past, since Voice over Something else will arrive.
You can't put a system and let it go for 3-4 years unless you don't have any growth, ( new drives = new technology , IDE/SATA/ISCSI) new RAM/ NEW CPU/ etc all these need software upgrades eventually.. As far as my personal experience i reformat my desktops /fully, semi annually, and all servers get a facelift every other month ( new glib for new freeswitch updates, new ZAP hardware ? then you need new zaptel.. wait zaptel aka dhadi needs X, X needs Y.. and so on.. Mike ContacTel.COM From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Thurman Sent: May-20-09 7:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Step-by-Step Asterisk and MeetMe Help >From the front page ( http://wiki.centos.org/FrontPage ): "What is CentOS? CentOS is an Enterprise Linux distribution based on the freely available <ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/> sources from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Each CentOS version is supported for 7 years (by means of security updates). A new CentOS version is released every 2 years and each CentOS version is regularly updated (every 6 months) to support newer hardware. This results in a secure, low-maintenance, reliable, predictable and reproducible Linux environment." CentOS 4 ( http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS4 ): "We intend to support CentOS-4 updates until Feb 29, 2012" CentOS 5 ( http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS5 ): "We intend to support CentOS 5 until Mar 31st, 2014" So if you don't want major upgrades for a while you might want to go with the latest version. To put it into Microsoft terms... the minor version is like a service pack. So CentOS 4.7 is really a base lined version 4, service pack 7. You get the new features in major releases (like there are no more "smp" kernels in 5 to deal with) -Jonathan On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Jimmy Ezell <[email protected]> wrote: >On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:07:25PM -0700, Jimmy Ezell wrote: > >> multi-processor machine ( I had to remember to specify smp >for the kernel) > >I repeat: why bother with such an old system? Really? > >Recall the comment from the book. That book had nothing really specific >to Centos 4. Why do you shoot yourself in the foot by >installing Centos4 >now? > >(not to mention Zaptel) > >-- > Tzafrir Cohen Tzafrir thanks for the comments. I am not done playing with this and in the end I may well use newer software as you suggest. According to wikipedia CentOS 4.7 was released OCT. 2008 (7 months ago) is that really consider that old? I am looking to setup a phone system that I would hope would not require any major software upgrades for many years. Jimmy > _______________________________________________ -- 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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