Re: [asterisk-users] which OS would be fine for asterisk

2007-08-27 Thread Jared Smith
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 18:24 -0400, Steve Totaro wrote: I am bringing up several Fedora Core 7 boxen into production now. Besides a knee jerk reaction that Fedora Sucks, can someone give a real argument as to why I should or should not use it for production? (besides the several MB of yum

Re: [asterisk-users] which OS would be fine for asterisk

2007-08-27 Thread Patrick
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 18:24 -0400, Steve Totaro wrote: [snip] Besides a knee jerk reaction that Fedora Sucks, can someone give a real argument as to why I should or should not use it for production? (besides the several MB of yum updates daily, which to me is a good thing). Steve, Fedora 7

Re: [asterisk-users] which OS would be fine for asterisk

2007-08-27 Thread Atis
On 8/27/07, Jared Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I use CentOS (when I don't care about support) or RHEL (when support is important to me) as my preferred server distribution, simply because they guarantee to have *years* worth (at least five years!) of security updates, even if I

Re: [asterisk-users] which OS would be fine for asterisk

2007-08-26 Thread Stephen Bosch
Steve Totaro wrote: But in all reality, value added features such as support and automatic updates aside, is there really a mainstream flavor of Linux that is better or worse for running Asterisk (or other apps for that matter)? I have had equal luck with all that I have played with (but

Re: [asterisk-users] which OS would be fine for asterisk

2007-08-25 Thread Anthony Francis
I concur, Centos 4.4 FTW. ^^ -- Original Message -- From: Edgar Guadamuz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussionasterisk-users@lists.digium.com Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 23:50:51 -0600 I have used CentOS and it

Re: [asterisk-users] which OS would be fine for asterisk

2007-08-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 12:31:15AM -0600, Anthony Francis wrote: I concur, Centos 4.4 FTW. ^^ Centos 4.4, as in not the latest, and already hald the packages are not in the repositories? Any specific reason you avoid Centos 4.5? Centos5? Any specific reason to keep using something that is still

Re: [asterisk-users] which OS would be fine for asterisk

2007-08-25 Thread Joe Acquisto
. . . Personally I recommend SuSE Linux. OpenSuSE without the GUI installed will do just fine. If you want to buy SLES that's fine, but I really don't see the value in it. The value would be live support and access to online updates. Courtesy (for the price) of Novell. There are, of

Re: [asterisk-users] which OS would be fine for asterisk

2007-08-25 Thread Andrew Joakimsen
On 8/25/07, Joe Acquisto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . Personally I recommend SuSE Linux. OpenSuSE without the GUI installed will do just fine. If you want to buy SLES that's fine, but I really don't see the value in it. The value would be live support and access to online updates.

Re: [asterisk-users] which OS would be fine for asterisk

2007-08-25 Thread Joe Acquisto
. . . The value would be live support and access to online updates. Courtesy (for the price) of Novell. There are, of course, some differences between OpenSuse and SLES. I've run Asterisk on SLES 9 and SLES 10 without problems. Your View/Mileage May Vary. joe a. With OpenSuSE you

Re: [asterisk-users] which OS would be fine for asterisk

2007-08-25 Thread Steve Totaro
Joe Acquisto wrote: . . . The value would be live support and access to online updates. Courtesy (for the price) of Novell. There are, of course, some differences between OpenSuse and SLES. I've run Asterisk on SLES 9 and SLES 10 without problems. Your

Re: [asterisk-users] which OS would be fine for asterisk

2007-08-25 Thread Joe Acquisto
. . . Besides naming a flavor and saying It is the best, can someone add a few statements as to why, which will obviously have to compare the other flavors. Thanks, Steve Totaro I'd have to review the entire thread to see if anyone actually claimed any flavor was best, but can point

Re: [asterisk-users] which OS would be fine for asterisk

2007-08-25 Thread Steve Totaro
Joe Acquisto wrote: . . . Besides naming a flavor and saying It is the best, can someone add a few statements as to why, which will obviously have to compare the other flavors. Thanks, Steve Totaro I'd have to review the entire thread to see if anyone actually claimed any

Re: [asterisk-users] which OS would be fine for asterisk

2007-08-25 Thread Matt Riddell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Totaro wrote: I am bringing up several Fedora Core 7 boxen into production now. Besides a knee jerk reaction that Fedora Sucks, can someone give a real argument as to why I should or should not use it for production? (besides the

Re: [asterisk-users] which OS would be fine for asterisk

2007-08-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 06:24:54PM -0400, Steve Totaro wrote: I am bringing up several Fedora Core 7 boxen into production now. Besides a knee jerk reaction that Fedora Sucks, can someone give a real argument as to why I should or should not use it for production? (besides the several

Re: [asterisk-users] which OS would be fine for asterisk

2007-08-25 Thread Philipp Kempgen
Matt Riddell wrote: Steve Totaro wrote: I am bringing up several Fedora Core 7 boxen into production now. Besides a knee jerk reaction that Fedora Sucks, can someone give a real argument as to why I should or should not use it for production? (besides the several MB of yum updates

Re: [asterisk-users] which OS would be fine for asterisk

2007-08-25 Thread Al lists
What Digium is using is rpath, RHEL /Centos On 8/25/07, Philipp Kempgen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matt Riddell wrote: Steve Totaro wrote: I am bringing up several Fedora Core 7 boxen into production now. Besides a knee jerk reaction that Fedora Sucks, can someone give a real argument

[asterisk-users] which OS would be fine for asterisk

2007-08-24 Thread satish patel
Dear which Linux version would be fine for asterisk CentOS 5.0 or Debian 4.0 or RHEL 4.0 Regards Satish patel - Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! Autos new Car Finder

Re: [asterisk-users] which OS would be fine for asterisk

2007-08-24 Thread Andrew Joakimsen
CentOS and RHEL are the same thing. One uses the RedHat trademark, the other doesnt. One is expensive, the other isn't. I don't like to recommend either because I just don't like RedHat's business practices. Personally I recommend SuSE Linux. OpenSuSE without the GUI installed will do just fine.

Re: [asterisk-users] which OS would be fine for asterisk

2007-08-24 Thread Edgar Guadamuz
I have used CentOS and it works fine and it is easy to install. I know that Debian is a little more complicated to install Asterisk and some teatures on Debian. I'd choice CentOS 4.2 or 4.4, as my personal preference. ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation