[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on windows

[Rich Adamson]

> Why on earth would you want to run it on Windows?  First off, your
> performance is going to go down because of the GUI... oh your call
> quality just went down the toilet?  Yeah sorry the screen saver just
> kicked in.   Having issues making calls?  Oh sorry we had to reboot
> for a critical update.   Yeah I know audio isn't working right, the
> swap file is a little large right now, we need to reboot.
> 
> Are you on crack?!?!   Asterisk runs well on Linux because of the lack
> of a GUI... sleek simple interface (text) to it.   Linux is free,
> windows adds a license cost.   Since you shouldn't be running any
> other applications on the server anyway, why not just install Linux? 
> Trying to run it on windows seems like a bad idea to me.

Most of the above certainly is focused on generating another religious
war relative to operating systems, etc, that has little factual basis.

For those of us that really don't care about such wars, there have been
plenty of Linux apps that have been ported to Win32, several of which
are run in production environments (at high usage rates) without the
difficulties or the reboots noted above. Many Win32 apps run in a high-
visibility high-security production environment (such as intrusion
detection systems, vpn hosts, etc), and can be secured "if" the sys
admin knows what they are doing.

Asterisk has been ported to Win32 systems, however the real reason why
such ports are not considered production quality has its roots in the
device drivers required to drive digium cards and associated critical
timing routines; nothing more, nothing less. The device driver porting
is not a trivial task.

Personally, I could care less which O/S the stuff runs on as long as
it runs reliably, and the sys admin understands how to manage whatever 
sytem he/she is responsible for.