[Asterisk-Users] freebsd and asterisk ?? anyone yet

[Tom (UnitedLayer)]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, denon wrote:
> I'd hate to see development efforts get split up, and more time spent on
> porting/etc efforts, detracting from primary development.  If it's now
> slowing down new development, it's always a step behind while someone
> patches up the current builds.

Once the code gets up to spec to be compiled on BSD systems, most likely
it won't need much after that. When something is written with a 'linuxism'
that breaks it from compiling on other platforms, its probably something
that should get fixed anyways (for sanity's sake). Chances are it'll
compile on a lot of other systems as well, heck, I'll build it on Tru64 to
see if it works :)

> The other aspect of this whole thing, is that most people's PBX is an
> entirely standalone machine (or should be).  Aside from AGI/etc which
> generally have to run locally (but are also usually very cross-platform
> anway), I can't understand why someone would prefer it on one OS over
> another.

Aside from stability, security, and updatability, there's no particular
reason. My network is almost entirely FreeBSD, to have a Linux box in the
mix is a pain, especially when it comes to updating the dang thing.

> Does it really matter what OS it runs on at this point, as long as it's
> a robust kernel?

I have yet to experience a really robust Linux kernel :)
Doesn't mean they don't exist though... I think.

> Feel free to prove me long -- generally I'm a "right OS for the job" kind
> of guy, but in the case of "appliances", it seems like the above logic
> makes sense.

I've seen a lot of appliances built on bad platforms. Giving people the
choice of OS only makes the SW platform stronger.