Hey Reza/Jim, I too have several boxes both in production and testing at collocation facilities, I've personally found Centos to be an excellent operating system and have had no downtown due to operating faults for over a year now. My Fedora Core 2 box made it to 210 Days before clunking out and I have a ubuntu box (Currently managed by Simon, running the zasterisk sphinx demo) that works very well also. I'm very much thumbs up on the Centos though; I've found it the easiest to work with thus far.
--- General rant/though about os selection --- A major thing to look at when selecting an operating system, especially from the many flavors Linux comes in is the release cycles (for instance you wouldn't want to get an os that release new versions every 3-4 months (some may remember how quickly fedora became fedora core 2 , 3, then 4 in a 6 month span) and how quickly the dev team is in coming up with security patches should vulnerability's be found. Phil. ________________________________ From: Reza - Asterisk Enthusiast [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: August 29, 2006 1:13 AM To: Jim Van Meggelen; TAUG Subject: [on-asterisk] CentOS or Ubuntu for Asterisk? Hello Jim: Yes, indeed I am running Fedora on my development box, though its co-located at a data centre and I run another two boxes that is Ubuntu based. The reason for Fedora was quite simple. My data centres admins are Fedora gurus and they prefer fedora over anything else. So it was a judgment call, based on their experience in case they needed to add or remove something from the machine - and that is what the guys are more comfortable with. However my preferred choice is Ubuntu. The machines running Ubuntu did not need a reboot for more than a year. They've been finely tweaked and tuned for optimal performance. I'm prejudiced towards Red Hat for different reasons, but am willing to keep an open mind. Is the CentOS team an off shoot of Redhat, or are they a completely separate independent entity from Red Hat? Normally all that you say is gospel to me & I listen to it heart and soul :). However... the question I would have for you... is if you were to decide whether CentOS or Ubuntu... which one would you choose? The only reason I chose Ubuntu is because I felt it was a fantastic flavour of Debian - and all my Asterisk servers have performed flawlessly compared to any other Linux version (I tried).... but I do have to confess I have NOT used CentOS yet! Waiting for your enlightenment! Cheers! Reza. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Van Meggelen <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Reza - Asterisk Enthusiast' <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 10:37 AM Subject: RE: [on-asterisk] Asterisk Voice Mail not going through. Reza, I noticed that you mentioned Fedora, and I thought I'd let you know that you should have your folks look into CentOS. It is also Redhat-based, but where Fedora is considered by Redhat to be a sort of experimental bleeding-edge version of Redhat, CentOS is based on Redhat Enterprise Linux. The CentOS team is so good that they are often ahead of Redhat in terms of deploying patches and updates, but otherwise they stick to RHEL very closely. Highly recommended. Jim
