[Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

[Deon Rodden]

It may sound bad, but I use Fedora Core 1. However, I installed using
reiserfs (my preferred filesystem) and I installed all the updates and had
to custom compile a new kernel (as the stock one that comes with Fedora is
too screwy, and the sources aren't done right and certain programs wouldn't
compile). However, once I did the updates and used a custom compiled kernel,
everything runs fast/smooth on it.  I haven't had an issue compiling
anything Asterisk related, yet. I did have issues with my Redhat 9 server,
and my OpenNA 1.0 server.  Of course, I have put a lot of security and
performance tweaks into my Fedora installation, had to make it "less redhat"
but now it runs good.

You may not be willing to do all that work; but if you're familiar with
redhat and how they do things and their directory structures and common
commands, I think Fedora Core 1 is a good choice.

Just a FYI. I think you'll find that as long as your favorite distro is
decent, Asterisk will work.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Corlett" <abuse at cabal.org.uk>
Newsgroups: newsgate.asterisk-users
To: <asterisk-users at lists.digium.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 9:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk


> Eric Kirkland <yg at ads.aero> wrote:
> > Hi folks; Can anyone recommend the best Linux OS (versions, etc) to
> > run Asterisk?
>
> "Best" is highly subjective, and asking is likely to provoke a holy war ;)
>
> > 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.
>
> Yes, I found that the TTS resisted my attempts to make it work on a
> Slackware box. However, it works fine on Debian 3.0 (which is also my
> preferred Linux distribution.)
>
> -- 
> [About a discussion of heavily customised cars.]
> I thought they were talking about cheap whores - smelly, ugly, brightly
> coloured, waste of money, and got a cock inside them most of the time.
> -- Will Hargrave in uknot
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