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

[Chris Albertson]

I agree 100%. Sometimes code works on one system
because of a "quirk".  Building and testing on
multiple systems and debugging the autoconf scripts
has a way of making the code mature and robust.  I
keep and old DEC Alpha (a 64 bit machine) and SPARC
(big endian byte order) and run Solaris and Linux. 
You'd be amazed at the kinds of errors testing on
multiple platforms turns up.

> 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.
> 
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