[Asterisk-Users] which distro for asterisk?

[Brian Wilkins]

I had that problem, but apt-get install did the trick.

On Tuesday 31 August 2004 02:53 pm, Huddleston, Robert wrote:
> I've been having troubles compiling in the openh323 on both redhat and
> debian... one of the biggest problems I had w/ Debian is it couldn't find
> alot of libraries like termcap etc...
> Has anyone else ran into these problems?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Jackson [mailto:tim at angelinacounty.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 10:31 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] which distro for asterisk?
>
>
> I'm using it on Debian Stable (Woody), works great, using it with the
> backports.org 2.6.7-1-686-smp kernel, zaptel drivers compile fine with
> their headers. I think it's all a matter of personal preference. I
> prefer Debian, so I use it, use whatever you like best :)
>
> -Tim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Deon Rodden [mailto:drodden at webunited.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 9:23 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] which distro for asterisk?
>
> We discussed this earlier and I believe the general consensus was that
> it's personal choice. I've personally used Asterisk on Redhat 9.0,
> Fedora Core 1 and Gentoo 2004.2
>
> Each has required some minor securing and cleaning up, but Redhat/Fedora
>
> tended to need more "babying" as far as securing default configs and
> speeding up certain things. But after a little bit of time with it, I
> had it running efficient and Asterisk loved it. The main problem I found
>
> with Redhat/Fedora was the default kernel, the sources are all messed up
>
> and the zaptel/libpri drivers didn't compile quite right. I simply
> downloaded the latest kernel, compiled it (and set it to my specific
> hardware to conserve memory) and libpri/zaptel compiled fine.
>
> Personally I'm now using Gentoo. What I did with Gentoo was "emerge
> asterisk-0.9.0" or whatever, and it handled all the dependencies for
> more. When I was done with that, I did a "emerge cvs" and once I had cvs
>
> I downloaded, compiled and upgraded to the latest
> libpri/zaptel/asterisk, just did a make upgrade. Gentoo tends to be a
> faster OS and more efficient with resources, it gives you bare minimum.
> Which sometimes is good, for security and such, but also a pain when it
> comes to standard interaction. ie by default they don't include "ftp" or
>
> "telnet" and "traceroute" just commands I'm used to having, nothing I
> can't emerge though.
>
> In the end, it's personal choice. For now I've gone with Gentoo.
> Asterisk really isn't that resource intensive, it seems to like memory a
>
> lot, but other than that I don't see it putting heavy loads on my
> systems, and the speed difference between two identical machines, one
> with with Fedora Core 1 and one with Gentoo, is almost imperceivable
> when it comes to working with Asterisk, (ie, the IVR and playback of
> messages, and interacting with the voicemail system, etc.).
>
> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> >Hi
> >
> >I want to play a bit with Asterisk. I currentlly install a new system
> >for that and I would like to get your recommendations regarding the
> >linux distro to use there.
> >
> >This is NOT intended to become a general distro flame war. My favorite
> >distro is ******** and no argument that you flame will convince me here
> >(probably because I've heard it before).
> >
> >However I would like to minimize the OS maintinance task. I really
> >wouldn't like to start worrying about upgrading sshd due to some stupid
> >secuirty hole, and to worry what will it break on my system. I expect
>
> my
>
> >distro to do that for me.
> >
> >I'd also like to have solid astrisk packages that won't break
> >unnecessarily when the sshd package is updated next time. Hopefully
>
> also
>
> >some sort of integration of zaptel in the distro's kernel package.
> >
> >I saw numerous complaints about "unofficial" RPM packages of asterisk.
> >Besides them, the following free distros include asterisk packages:
> >
> >1. Debian: http://packages.debian.org/asterisk .
> >2. Gentoo: Current package seems to be version 0.9.0 from 10-May-2004
> >3. The DAG repository for RH/Fedora:
> >   http://dag.wieers.com/packages/asterisk/
> >
> >I have some experince with Debian, Mandrake and RedHat/Fedora. I'm
> >unfamiliar with Gentoo and I have no good/bad experince with DAG
> >packages with respect to quality and stability.
> >
> >Any recommendations, relevant experince and other learned opinions?
> >
> >thx
>
> _______________________________________________
> Asterisk-Users mailing list
> Asterisk-Users at lists.digium.com
> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
>    http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> _______________________________________________
> Asterisk-Users mailing list
> Asterisk-Users at lists.digium.com
> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
>    http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> _______________________________________________
> Asterisk-Users mailing list
> Asterisk-Users at lists.digium.com
> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit:
>    http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users

-- 
--
Heritage Communications Corporation
  Melbourne, FL     USA     32935
http://www.hcc.net