[Asterisk-Users] Gentoo and Asterisk - any experiences?

[Kevin Walsh]

Patrick [asterisk at puzzled.xs4all.nl] wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 16:23 +0000, Kevin Walsh wrote:
> > I do recommend Gentoo GNU/Linux with the 2.6 kernel.  Everything
> > "just works" (tm) without all the hoops you have to jump though with
> > other distros - such as Fedora.
> >
> Not wanting to start the ol' distro wars again but I haven't come across
> any hoops I need to jump through while installing Fedora Core 2 or 3. My
> installs typically take 20 mins (start-end, including extensive
> individual package selection) which imho beats the lightyears it takes
> Gentoo to compile all the apps. Fedora Core 2 has worked fine for me
> running Asterisk for a long time now and I recommend that over Fedora
> Core 3 due to the introduction of udev which requires additional tweaks
> and too cutting edge versions of gcc for my taste.
> 
Additional tweaks are classed as "hoops to jump through" in my view.
You're right about one thing though: We don't need another distro war.

By the way, a light year is a unit of distance - not time. :-)

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