[Asterisk-Users] OS Choice ?

[Michael Graves]

On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:09:26 +0200, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:

>Alex Brecher wrote:
>> Which Distro is the most commonly used distro with Asterisk please ?
>
>I don't know which is most commonly used, but I can tell you which is 
>the easiest to install if you're going to install the OS from scratch 
>anyway and plan to use it with Asterisk:
>
>"Xorcom Rapid is a Debian/Asterisk distribution program that includes an 
>auto-install and special auto-configuration features. It quickly and 
>effortlessly converts any PC to a functioning Asterisk PBX..."

Since I had to rebuild my * server over the weekend I had a go with
this Xorcom thingy. It pretty much did as it promised, with minimal
user interaction it created a working * installation with a handy text
mode shell. However, being a Linux newbie I found that it lacked a few
basic things that I needed to make it work for me...most significantly
the ability to use SSH to connect from my desktop transfer config files
and otherwise and administer *. Had I been able to do that I would
probably have tried it out for a while.

Oh, also the version of * it installed was quite old...CVS 5/11/04 if I
recall. That was also a major concern.

If I have to build a new server for my home office some time in the
future I'll try the AstLinux  ISO which is an embedded version of
Gentoo with Asterisk 1.0. Runs on PC Engines WRAP boards.

Michael

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