Re: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-08-03 Thread Leif Madsen
On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 12:08:34 +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: be it. Most of the unstable behavior has been in GUI based parts: Gnome in particular. Since no sane person runs * on a machine that is also running X, it's a non-issue. Is this always going to be the case?

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-08-01 Thread Steve Totaro
please post the makefile hackings. i have a sparc64 gathering dust. - Original Message - From: Ming-Wei Shih [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2004 2:29 PM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk I am running * CVS head on Gentoo/i586

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-08-01 Thread Ming-Wei Shih
Steve Totaro wrote: please post the makefile hackings. i have a sparc64 gathering dust. --- this is against CVS-NHEAD-07/28/04-15:58:08 and includes my install path in /opt Ming-Wei diff --recursive -u asterisk/Makefile asterisk.orig/Makefile --- asterisk/Makefile 2004-07-28 16:03:20.0

Re: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-08-01 Thread matt . riddell
be it. Most of the unstable behavior has been in GUI based parts: Gnome in particular. Since no sane person runs * on a machine that is also running X, it's a non-issue. Is this always going to be the case? Is there no way of saying X doesn't get what it wants unless noone else wants it?

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-31 Thread Ming-Wei Shih
I am running * CVS head on Gentoo/i586 and Gentoo/Sparc64 (US60 2x450/1GB RAM), they are running great. On sparc64 * does not compile out-of-the-box, some hackings in the Makefiles are needed, Ming-Wei ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL

Re: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-29 Thread Walt Reed
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:23:41PM +, Mark Woods said: No, it won't be the absolute latest code, but the Debian community is pretty good about keeping packages updated. ah! ah! ah! really... oh oh, so why debian is eons later in releasing new packages... perhaps you're

RE: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-29 Thread Sebastian Nocetti
Walt Reed Enviado el: Jueves, 29 de Julio de 2004 10:12 a.m. Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Asunto: Re: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:23:41PM +, Mark Woods said: No, it won't be the absolute latest code, but the Debian community is pretty good about

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-29 Thread Peter Corlett
Sebastian Nocetti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All distributions are based on same kernels... And in my opinion, Kernel is who does all work in an operative systemm.. I am wrong?... Sort of. libc is the other thing that can affect performance. However, any distribution worth its salt will provide a

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-29 Thread james edwards
Gentoo's performance improvements from recompiling the world are usually more psychological than practical. http://www.funroll-loops.org/ ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-29 Thread Mark Woods
Exactly...which is why I run unstable. -Mark perhaps you're speaking of -unstable debian... that's wy too unstable. A...but I *am* running unstable! And it's been quite, well, stable! :) There is a huge misconception about stable vs unstable. FWIW, I have found debian unstable

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-28 Thread James Freire
Hi Andy, I have had tremendous success running Asterisk on Slackware linux version 9.1. Its very quick to install and I had absolutely no problem compiling the source code for Asterisk or anything else so far. I have asterisk running on 2 servers right now that use Slackware. -James

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-28 Thread Duane Cox
Most die hard Linux fans build their own distribution. But there is also gentoo which is VERY popular. - Original Message - From: Eric Kirkland To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 8:13 AM Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk Hi

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-28 Thread mattf
Oh boy, time for distro wars :) I have found that for some reason Asterisk seems to run better on Slackware than Redhat, that's just my personal non-scientific observations, but we have 4 Asterisk servers in production(two redhat 9, one slackware 9.1 and one slackware 10.0) with almost identical

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-28 Thread Leif Madsen
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:13:37 -0400, Eric Kirkland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks; Can anyone recommend the best Linux OS (versions, etc) to run Asterisk? I'd like to be able to run the Text To Speech apps and some of the extended functions of the software (no phone hardware needed, all

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-28 Thread Peter Corlett
Eric Kirkland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks; Can anyone recommend the best Linux OS (versions, etc) to run Asterisk? Best is highly subjective, and asking is likely to provoke a holy war ;) I'd like to be able to run the Text To Speech apps and some of the extended functions of the

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-28 Thread Michael Little
Andy, I have limited Linux experience, but I have Asterisk installed on a Slackware 10 box. I had some assistance from our developer (he knows a lot more than I do with using Linux). It seemed to install quick and I don't recall having any problems.

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-28 Thread Yiannis Costopoulos
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Leif Madsen Sent: 28 July 2004 14:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:13:37 -0400, Eric Kirkland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks; Can anyone recommend the best Linux OS (versions, etc) to run

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-28 Thread Seth Remington
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 09:13, Eric Kirkland wrote: I'm having difficulty compiling the TTS stuff. You aren't very specific about the problems you are having compiling Festival but on the off chance that your problems were the same ones I had you might want to check out this:

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-28 Thread Robert Jackson
-Original Message- From: Eric Kirkland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 9:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk Well, I am not going to say what is or isn't the best. (Because everything is good depending on

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-28 Thread Deon Rodden
think you'll find that as long as your favorite distro is decent, Asterisk will work. - Original Message - From: Peter Corlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: newsgate.asterisk-users To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 9:29 AM Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-28 Thread Kevin Walsh
Peter Corlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Kirkland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks; Can anyone recommend the best Linux OS (versions, etc) to run Asterisk? Best is highly subjective, and asking is likely to provoke a holy war ;) Agreed. Having said that, Gentoo is clearly the best.

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-28 Thread Mark Woods
I'm not religous about any particular flavor of Linux, but I am highly partial to Debian, for multiple reasons. As far as running *, I think one can simply to an apt-get install asterisk libpri zaptel and be ready to go. No, it won't be the absolute latest code, but the Debian community is

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-28 Thread Brian D'Arcy
Hi Andy, Before Asterisk came into my life, I hadn't used Linux since RedHat 4.7. I did some research and decided to use one of the debian netinst images this go around, and I couldn't be happier. While it took me a day stumbling thru the packages and re-learning my way around, figuring out

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-28 Thread Leif Madsen
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

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-28 Thread Steven Critchfield
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 08:13, Eric Kirkland wrote: Hi folks; Can anyone recommend the best Linux OS (versions, etc) to run Asterisk? I'd like to be able to run the Text To Speech apps and some of the extended functions of the software (no phone hardware needed, all Voice over IP stuff)... I'm

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-28 Thread Brancaleoni Matteo
sorry, but I cannot resist... Il mer, 2004-07-28 alle 17:44, Mark Woods ha scritto: I'm not religous about any particular flavor of Linux, but I am highly partial to Debian, for multiple reasons. I agree. snip No, it won't be the absolute latest code, but the Debian community is pretty good

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-28 Thread Geoff Nordli
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Woods Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 8:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk I'm not religous about any particular flavor of Linux, but I am

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-28 Thread Remco Barende
I am running a RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 rebuild. Fairly easy just recompile the RedHat 9 SRPMS and off you go :) I like the fact that updates are supported until at least 2008 :) unlike Fedora The rebuild I use is taolinux.org I have another box running Gentoo but the Asterisk ebuild is still

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-28 Thread usedcanon
Peter Corlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Kirkland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks; Can anyone recommend the best Linux OS (versions, etc) to run Asterisk? Best is highly subjective, and asking is likely to provoke a holy war ;) Agreed. Having said that, Gentoo is clearly the best.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-28 Thread Peter Svensson
We use Asterisk successfully on White Box Linux (which is derived from the freely available part of RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0). We package our own rpm:s of asterisk since we have a few local modifications. Peter ___ Asterisk-Users mailing list

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-28 Thread Steven Critchfield
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 13:12, usedcanon wrote: Peter Corlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Kirkland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks; Can anyone recommend the best Linux OS (versions, etc) to run Asterisk? Best is highly subjective, and asking is likely to provoke a holy war ;)

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-28 Thread Chris Glover
Hi, I use Gentoo, and find it's documentation and package management excellent. Try here http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml Chris -- Chris -- E Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SIP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IAXTEL: 17003366726 On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, usedcanon wrote:

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-28 Thread Kevin Walsh
usedcanon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Corlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Kirkland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks; Can anyone recommend the best Linux OS (versions, etc) to run Asterisk? Best is highly subjective, and asking is likely to provoke a holy war ;) Agreed.

Re: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-28 Thread Mark Woods
No, it won't be the absolute latest code, but the Debian community is pretty good about keeping packages updated. ah! ah! ah! really... oh oh, so why debian is eons later in releasing new packages... perhaps you're speaking of -unstable debian... that's wy too unstable.

Re: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-28 Thread Duane Cox
Of course, if you really want _ultimate_ performance, build your own distro. - Original Message - From: Steven Critchfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 3:22 PM Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 13:12

RE: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

2004-07-28 Thread Stephen R. Darragh
We use Debian here and it works just fine (using Asterisk CVS head rather than the Debian packages, though). On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 21:31, mattf wrote: Oh boy, time for distro wars :) I have found that for some reason Asterisk seems to run better on Slackware than Redhat, that's just my