[Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

[Leif Madsen]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 09:13:37 -0400, Eric Kirkland <yg at ads.aero> wrote:
> Hi folks;  Can anyone recommend the best Linux OS (versions, etc) to run
> Asterisk?  I'd like to be able to run the Text To Speech apps and some of
> the extended functions of the software (no phone hardware needed, all Voice
> over IP stuff)... I'm currently running Asterisk on Mandrake Linux (vesion
> 10 I think?) but I'm having difficulty compiling the TTS stuff.
> 
> I'm just wondering if there's a widely used version that pretty much works
> with everything...?

I personally use Fedora Core 1 and 2 successfully at home.  Gentoo
seems to be the most widely agreed upon distribution though.  I don't
think anyone would slam you for using Asterisk on it.

HTH,
Leif Madsen.
http://www.asteriskdocs.org