WipeOut wrote: > Greg Boehnlein wrote: > >> On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, WipeOut wrote: >> >> >> >>> This is great to see.. but why RH7.3 (or RH8 for that matter) since >>> it has already been EOL'ed by RH?? >>> >>> >> >> Couple of reasons.. >> >> 1. It is a stable, known quantity that uses solid components and >> closely >> mirrors the environment that a lot of people develop Asterisk on. It >> isn't going to drastically change, so those wishing to deploy it in >> production may look to RedHat 7.3 as a stable platform for that >> purpose. >> >> 2. 8.0 and 9.0 are really not "server" oriented distributions of >> RedHat. >> RedHat started using a lot of edge technology in the later versions >> of RedHat (newer Glibc, newer GCC) and as a result, I know very few >> people (and I know a lot in my Industry ;) that are deploying >> commercial, production servers on top of RH 8 and 9. It's great for >> the DeskTop, but not in the Data center. As with all things, this is >> based on my personal opinions, so your mileage may vary! ;) >> >> 3. I want to refine the RPMS a bit and do some updates and changes to >> the >> .specfiles. If I have to maintain 7.3, 8.0, 9.0 and FC1 releases, >> that is 3 times the build work. Work will proceed a lot more rapidly >> if I just have to do a weekly update for one platform. >> >> 4. I run Asterisk on top of RH 7.3 currently and it suited my needs. >> ;) >> >> 5. I haven't yet built my 8.0, 9.0 and Fedora Core 1 development >> environments for Vmware, although the SRPMS that I released -SHOULD- >> build on them without modifications. >> >> >> >>> For those who use RH or Fedora Core, RH9 is EOL in April and FC2 is >>> scheduled for release in April as well.. >>> >>> >> >> See #5! ;) >> >> >> > I understand or agree with all of your points.. > > My biggest problem is that RH has basically dropped me in the "poo" by > killing off their free version and stopping support for all the free > versions as well.. I have been looking at alternatives but so far > nothing is going to fit the bill.. The other distro's are either way > off > the mark or too difficult to get running in the first place or to > difficult to manage in a production enviroment.. also I can't affort > $400 for RH Enterprise Linux for each of my test/demo/dev servers.. I > guess there are many with the same problem.. :( > > Later.. > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To > UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Have you tried www.gentoo.org . We are using it currently on a couple servers And it works great. _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
