[Asterisk-Users] Linux flavor?

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Tuesday 29 July 2003 09:41, Troy Settle wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Low, Adam
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 9:15 AM
> >
> > Personally, I've compiled Asterisk on Redhat and Debian
> > without any problems on either, I think generally Asterisk
> > compiles very easily no matter what the distro but I would
> > recommend that you use the one you are most
> > comfortable/experienced with.
>
> Good advice.  Unfortunately, nobody with requisite skill has stepped
> up to get this thing ported over to FreeBSD (though I recently heard
> a rumor that someone finally got it built).  Nothing personal against
> Linux, in fact I was highly impressed with the RH9 install last week
> and will likely end up with it on my laptop if not my desktop, but
> for servers there are a great many people, including myself, who much
> prefer BSD over Linux.
>
> I can't speak for all BSD users, but for myself, the issue is not so
> much one of trust, it's a matter of (re)learning the linux way.  I
> originally gave up Linux in favor of FreeBSD because in 1996, FreeBSD
> was better in many ways, most of which no longer apply (just the
> asthetic ones).

Actually, it's been ported over to OpenBSD.  It shouldn't be too much of
a struggle to adapt Asterisk to FreeBSD, although I haven't tried yet.
The real difficulty will be in porting the zaptel drivers over to
FreeBSD.

BTW, gastman currently compiles and runs on FreeBSD.  I'd recommend
GTK-2.0, however, over GTK-1.2, as the 1.2 stuff has some critical
problems.

-Tilghman