[Asterisk-Users] Which Linux distribution?

[garth at bitco.co.za]

I use Centos 3.5 with great success.  It is a RHEL3 binary compatible clone.
Don't know if I would use development cutting edge software in the
enterprise.



--- John Daragon <john at argv.co.uk> wrote:
> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:10:05AM +0100, John Daragon wrote:
> > 
> >>YT Lim wrote:
> >>
> >>>We have tried Asterisk 1.0.9 on FC4 and have never
> >>>been able to get CAPI (with Fritz card, fcpci) to work
> >>>properly. Apart from that Asterisk works fine in
> >>>switching internal calls. But it's useless if we can't
> >>>make outgoing calls on our ISDN line.
> >>>
> >>>We are considering abandoning FC4 for Debian or SuSe.
> >>>What is the general concensus on the best Linux to run
> >>>Asterisk with CAPI?
> >>
> >>SUSE (as far as I know) is the only distro that really *expects* you to 
> >>be using ISDN2e as a matter of course.
> > 
> > 
> > "Only Linux distro that" is generally something that is a bit hasty to
> > say, given the fact that there are so many of them ;-) .
> 
> You're absolutely right.
> 
> > Mandrake is quite Europe-centric as well. I'm not sure about ISDN
> > support. 
> 
> It's shipped with the packages; I looked at it when I first started 
> installing *, but couldn't get fcpci to work at the time.  CAPI appears 
> to have been written on (or for) SUSE in the first place, and SUSE was 
> the first distro I came across that supported ISDN2e out of the box.
> 
> > 
> > Debian has generally a large european installed base and a variety of
> > ISDN-related packages as a result.
> > 
> > Sorry, I won't make your life easier :-p
> > 
> 
> You mean it's *supposed* to be easy ?
> 
> jd
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