Lonnie Abelbeck wrote: > A few months back I felt the same way (about building my own images). > > I then purchased VMware (Fusion) for my MacPro, downloaded a minimal > Virtual Appliance (Ubuntu-6.10.10, is what I chose at the time) and > started the learning process. > > Astlinux Development Guide: > http://www.astlinux.org/node/24 > > VMware appliances: > http://www.vmware.com/appliances/ > > It was a good decision. > > Not only can you build custom asterisk images, I have a net4801 > astlinux image without asterisk/zaptel serving either as a NTP time > server or an OpenVPN server. > > I just returned from my parents updating their net4801 to an asterisk > 1.4.18 custom SIP/IAX2 only astlinux trunk build. > > The VMware approach also has the advantage of creating multiple build > 'snapshots' so you can try multiple different trunk builds for > testing. Of course, the VMware approach is somewhat slower than a > native Linux box, about an hour for a full build from scratch. > > Highly recommended.
Lonnie, While it's been a good side effect to have more people using the development environment, it's not an excuse to not have current releases. It's not practical to ask every person who uses Astlinux to build their own images. Darrick -- Darrick Hartman DJH Solutions, LLC http://www.djhsolutions.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
