On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 10:22:53 -0400, Deon Rodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It may sound bad, but I use Fedora Core 1.
I don't think it sounds bad. I'm using FC2. I really like it. I haven't done a lot of the advanced stuff on it yet, but zaptel and Asterisk compiled fine with the stock kernel (after doing a yum update). I'm using ztdummy on a PII 350 and MeetMe conferencing works. Haven't installed Festival (I tried it once, and found it fairly unusable for an auto-attendent, and had no other uses in scripts for it). Will probably test MOH in the next couple of days. > However, I installed using > reiserfs (my preferred filesystem) and I installed all the updates and had > to custom compile a new kernel (as the stock one that comes with Fedora is > too screwy, and the sources aren't done right and certain programs wouldn't > compile). However, once I did the updates and used a custom compiled kernel, > everything runs fast/smooth on it. I haven't had an issue compiling > anything Asterisk related, yet. I did have issues with my Redhat 9 server, > and my OpenNA 1.0 server. Of course, I have put a lot of security and > performance tweaks into my Fedora installation, had to make it "less redhat" > but now it runs good. Obviously whatever works, works. However, this is what I did to get my system running on FC2: - Install FC2 *only* with [X] Development Tools, [X] Kernel Sources (not really needed as you compile against the build directory, but nice to have anyways), [X] Editors - Once installed, do a yum update - Reboot to make new kernel active - cd /usr/src/ - Verify that /usr/src/linux-26 is pointed to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/ ^^^ This should get updated when installing the new kernel, but always good to verify it did update the link and isn't pointing to the old build directory - Checkout Asterisk and Zaptel from CVS - cd /usr/src/zaptel ; make clean ; make linux26 ; make install - cd /usr/src/asterisk ; make clean ; make install I didn't have to do anything fancy to get this to work. Perhaps I just got lucky, but I think a lot of the problems people find on FC2 is not keeping the system clean at first. After doing this, I did yum install's for httpd, mysql-server and dhcpd. I even compiled phpmyadmin for mysql-server interface. Everything is still running great after at least 2 weeks of use. This is not a fancy computer either, scrap PII 350 parts with 256 MB of RAM (wait... 192MB, had a bad RAM stick in there...) > Just a FYI. I think you'll find that as long as your favorite distro is > decent, Asterisk will work. Agreed. The *best* Linux distro is the one you are most comfortable with. Thanks, Leif Madsen. http://www.asteriskdocs.org _______________________________________________ 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
