[Asterisk-doc] Last Conf / Volume

[jim at digitalchemy.ca]

Good questions.

Leif and I have done much jawing on this subject as well.

Here's some of my thoughts:

With respect to 2.4 vs. 2.6, we wanted to be sure the 2.6 support in Asterisk was 
rock solid, so we've been working with 2.4 knowing that we'll have to deprecate it in 
favour of 2.6. Could this be a topic for *con?

With respect to other OS's/distros, we figured we'd end up with either too many 
footnotes or too many confusing choices for the reader if we tried to cover all the 
possible platforms. We are enthusiastic fans of all the non-Linux ports and should 
very much ensure that we pay respects to the BSD, OS-X and non-Fedora distros 
somewhere in Volume One, but giving all these choices to the reader will not help to 
achieve our goal, which is to walk them through the simplest process possible that 
will deliver a working Asterisk system.

The reason we went with FC1 (or, FC2 very shortly) is that we felt it would be the 
distro that would be easiset for the newbie to obtain, install, configure, and get 
support on. Fedora is arguably the most popular newbie Linux distro, and that 
qualified it as the ideal distro upon which to build our newbie Asterisk system. 

The goal of Volume One isn't to build the most technically perfect Asterisk system, 
but rather to document a step-by-step process that will allow the newbie to succeed 
in creating a well-balanced system upon which to the embark on their journey of 
Asterisk knowledge. 

Once they achieve that, we can only hope that they start thinking along these lines:

"well, I've now got a working Asterisk system but gosh, I just want to see how small I 
can get the kernel . . . "
or 
"I wonder what I could tweak to get the best performance optomizations . . . "
or
"what if I reserve one server for the call processing, and tie another one in for the 
database, voicemail, storage and . . . "
or
"I'm sure Python will build a better GUI than PHP . . . "
and even
"I don't think Fedora is the best distro for Asterisk. I'll bet I can do better . . . "

We just converted another one! And THAT'S what the spirit of Volume One should 
be all about!

Cheers,

Jim.


On 26 Aug 2004 at 19:56, William Suffill wrote:

> Dear List,
> 
> It seems to be progressing rather well now with the split into a
> volume type setup. At least this way we can set a goal as to what is
> to be covered and then complete that instead of just taking the
> subject matter in 1 huge edition.
> 
> Now that Volume One is finally on the site I was able to read threw
> it. I noticed that it keys into FC1 which would be 2.4 kernel. It made
> me wonder do we want to push new users to use FC1 w/ 2.4 shich should
> be hitting EOL shortly or have them start with FC2 w/ 2.6?
> 
> Also how do we want to handle it when other people contribute how to
> configure Asterisk on other OS's be it other distros of Linux or
> Freebsd?
> 
> -- William
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