On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:09:26 +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
Alex Brecher wrote:
Which Distro is the most commonly used distro with Asterisk please ?
I don't know which is most commonly used, but I can tell you which is the easiest to install if you're going to install the OS from scratch anyway and plan to use it with Asterisk:
"Xorcom Rapid is a Debian/Asterisk distribution program that includes an auto-install and special auto-configuration features. It quickly and effortlessly converts any PC to a functioning Asterisk PBX..."
Since I had to rebuild my * server over the weekend I had a go with this Xorcom thingy. It pretty much did as it promised, with minimal user interaction it created a working * installation with a handy text mode shell. However, being a Linux newbie I found that it lacked a few basic things that I needed to make it work for me...most significantly the ability to use SSH to connect from my desktop transfer config files and otherwise and administer *. Had I been able to do that I would probably have tried it out for a while.
Oh, also the version of * it installed was quite old...CVS 5/11/04 if I recall. That was also a major concern.
This is the only thing that worried me. And now from what I have been able to find is that there are limited to none development software on the install. I was hopeful that there would have been enough development software installed so that I could run an Upgrade :( which there appears not to be!.
So as you I think I will be rebuilding the server again :( I need to ability to be able to update the * versions as bugs are fixed and features are added.
It is a Great start and will allow newbies to get started with little problem but i can see it being an issue with the mailling list being users asking questions about out of date CVS versions which may well have the bugs fixed.
David
If I have to build a new server for my home office some time in the future I'll try the AstLinux ISO which is an embedded version of Gentoo with Asterisk 1.0. Runs on PC Engines WRAP boards.
Michael
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