[Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk

[Geoff Nordli]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Mark Woods
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 8:44 AM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: RE: [Asterisk-Users] Best Linux for Asterisk
> 
> 
> I'm not religous about any particular flavor of Linux,
> but I am highly partial to Debian, for multiple reasons.
> 
> As far as running *, I think one can simply to an
> "apt-get install asterisk libpri zaptel" and be ready to
> go.
> 
> No, it won't be the absolute latest code, but the Debian
> community is pretty good about keeping packages updated.
> 
> Debian, to me, is the easiest Linux/unix that I've ever
> been around.
> 
> -Mark
> 

If you are running Woody (stable) and want to use more current software then
check out the backports:

http://www.backports.org/debian/dists/stable/asterisk/binary-i386/

Just add "deb http://www.backports.org/debian woody asterisk" to your
/etc/apt/sources.list file.

If you are running testing or unstable the software is relatively current.
Here is the developer page for asterisk to figure out what software versions
they are running.  The only downside is they have confused some of the
naming conventions so are already at version 1.0.

Have a great day!

Geoff