[Asterisk-doc] Prerequisite Knowledge and Skills

[Steven Critchfield]

On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 02:41, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
> jim@digitalchemy.ca wrote:
> 
> 
> > While Asterisk has been known to work on other hardware platforms (such 
> > as x86_64) and other operating systems (such as FreeBSD), we recommend 
> > you use Asterisk under Linux on an i386, especially while you are first 
> > starting out. Getting Asterisk up and running on other platforms or 
> > operating systems is not for the faint of heart!
> > 
> With all the recent changes for Asterisk on *BSD, I would say that this
> is wrong...
> 
> I would change to:
> --------------------
> Asterisk works on many operating systems, however the main development
> and the PSTN hardware support is focused on the Linux i386 platform.
> On other platforms, you are mostly limited to use only VoIP protocols
> in your PBX. Some applications will not run without timers that
> currently is implemented only on Linux systems. The FreeBSD operating

While I am not one to normally give grammar lessons, I usually need
them, above should be "a timer". That change will reflect that there is
only one timer, and it will fit with the "is" in the following line.

> system has recently got a lot of attention by Asterisk developers
> and Asterisk is running smoothly on that platform with the above
> mentioned limitations.
> ---------------------
> 
> I have been running * on FreeBSD for a year without any major problems
> until recently, but that was quickly sorted out... Had a friend who
> installed on FreeBSD yesterday without a problem, and he is a complete
> Asterisk newbie (I don't know about his heart condition, though).
> 
> /O
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Steven Critchfield  <critch@basesys.com>