Since you opened this "Can-O-Worms", Digium "implicitly" endorses Scientific Linux and SVN branches using Zaptel, based on my findings from SwitchVox. This being said, I'd probably go with 1.4.21.X since anything above that replaces zaptel with DAHDI. There are still a lot of things "To be worked out" in DAHDI - Zaptel is a pretty solid standard. I'd stay away from OpenSUSE and any other distro that releases new releases more than every 6 months.
_____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jimmy Ezell Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 12:49 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [asterisk-users] Best Current Release for Long Term Use It has been suggested that I should do my Asterisk tutorial (http://qvlweb.blogspot.com/2009/04/asterisk-pbx-install-index.html) using newer software, OK. I hope this is not opening a big can of worms, as I am sure there are a lot of different opinions about this, but: For a low/no growth company looking for a long term, low maintance, basic phone system (Calls, Hold, Transfer, Park, Conference), what is the best stable release of Asterisk to use? Even worse question to ask, what is the best Linux ditro to run Asterisk on? Jimmy Ezell _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jonathan Thurman Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 4:33 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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