[Asterisk-Users] OS Choice ?

[David Uzzell]

Michael Graves wrote:
> 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.

This is the only thing that worried me. And now from what I have been 
able to find is that there are limited to none development software on 
the install. I was hopeful that there would have been enough development 
software installed so that I could run an Upgrade :( which there appears 
not to be!.


So as you I think I will be rebuilding the server again :( I need to 
ability to be able to update the * versions as bugs are fixed and 
features are added.

It is a Great start and will allow newbies to get started with little 
problem but i can see it being an issue with the mailling list being 
users asking questions about out of date CVS versions which may well 
have the bugs fixed.


David

> 
> 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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