On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 23:10, Alex Barnes wrote: > Hi all, > > I am currently trying to decide what Operating System is best to go > for on a customer site. Server will only be running Asterisk / MySQL > / Apache / PHP but nothing else. > > I have only tested Asterisk on SLES 8.1 however I do have experience > with RedHat 9 as well. > > However SLES 8 = Â599 ex vat and with so many free Linux OS's out > there I am tempted to deploy something else on customer sites. > RedHat 9 is no longer available so although I probably have CD's > somewhere I assume that I cannot actually legally install this now for > NEW installs????
As for distributions, I'm tending to like debian at the moment, mainly because it has simple, easy to use management tools (apt), and, well, it is free... Really though, they are all the same... So I would usually say, use whatever you know the best. Oh, you can probably 'legally' install RH9 in another 20 years, I doubt there was any sort of time limit on installation for it... (not that I would know)... [snip] > Sorry for the many questions but I am not particularly experienced > with Linux to know what the real difference is with the umpteen > versions. You did ask for advice, so: If you don't know linux well enough to be comfortable with any specific distribution, to the point that really all of them are mostly the same, just a few extra GUI's/tools that they throw in. The biggest difference is usually in the install process, but again, I don't really know much about this, since I've never actually purchased a copy of any linux distro.... So, what I would suggest is that if you don't know linux that well, perhaps you should pause and think again about selling a linux based solution to a customer. I mean, stuffing around with something yourself is different to actually selling a *solution*... Perhaps you might talk to another local asterisk consultant (or even just a linux consultant).. Just my 0.02c.... > thanks as always for any advice [delete silly, very long signature, incl stupid disclaimer...] Please please don't start any huge threads about the best linux distro, and extra please don't take offence about my comments, they will hopefully make you think about it. What you do from there is entirely up to you. _______________________________________________ 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
