[Asterisk-Users] Linux flavor?

[Brian West]

I would love to see FreeBSD support.  Any links on the OpenBSD port?

bkw

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Tilghman Lesher wrote:

> 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
>
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