[Asterisk-Users] Advice on OS Choice

[Matthew Boehm]

What did he mean by RH9 is no longer available? I just downloaded it
yesterday and burned it to CD. You can get on ftp.redhat.com and download
every version RedHat ever made.

Matthew
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Goryachev" <mailinglists at websitemanagers.com.au>
To: "Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion"
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Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Advice on OS Choice


> On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 23:10, Alex Barnes wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am currently trying to decide what Operating System is best to go
> > for on a customer site.  Server will only be running Asterisk / MySQL
> > / Apache / PHP but nothing else.
> >
> > I have only tested Asterisk on SLES 8.1 however I do have experience
> > with RedHat 9 as well.
> >
> > However SLES 8 = £599 ex vat and with so many free Linux OS's out
> > there I am tempted to deploy something else on customer sites.
> > RedHat 9 is no longer available so although I probably have CD's
> > somewhere I assume that I cannot actually legally install this now for
> > NEW installs????
>
>
> As for distributions, I'm tending to like debian at the moment, mainly
> because it has simple, easy to use management tools (apt), and, well, it
> is free...
>
> Really though, they are all the same... So I would usually say, use
> whatever you know the best.
>
> Oh, you can probably 'legally' install RH9 in another 20 years, I doubt
> there was any sort of time limit on installation for it... (not that I
> would know)...
>
> [snip]
>
> > Sorry for the many questions but I am not particularly experienced
> > with Linux to know what the real difference is with the umpteen
> > versions.
>
> You did ask for advice, so:
> If you don't know linux well enough to be comfortable with any specific
> distribution, to the point that really all of them are mostly the same,
> just a few extra GUI's/tools that they throw in. The biggest difference
> is usually in the install process, but again, I don't really know much
> about this, since I've never actually purchased a copy of any linux
> distro....
> So, what I would suggest is that if you don't know linux that well,
> perhaps you should pause and think again about selling a linux based
> solution to a customer. I mean, stuffing around with something yourself
> is different to actually selling a *solution*... Perhaps you might talk
> to another local asterisk consultant (or even just a linux consultant)..
>
> Just my 0.02c....
>
> > thanks as always for any advice
>
> [delete silly, very long signature, incl stupid disclaimer...]
>
> Please please don't start any huge threads about the best linux
> distro, and extra please don't take offence about my comments, they will
> hopefully make you think about it. What you do from there is entirely
> up to you.
>
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