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On Wed, 20 May 2009, ContactTel Business wrote: > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ -- 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
