[asterisk-users] Switching from FreeBSD to Linux - which distro?

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Other than for Zap cards, why would you want to switch from *BSD to linux?
I don't run * on *BSD, but I've heard it runs very smoothly and stable
(probably more than several linux distros).

Just curious.

Thanks,
Daniel

-----Original Message-----
From: "John Novack" <jnovack at stromberg-carlson.org>
Sent: Thu, December 7, 2006 8:42 pm
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Switching from FreeBSD to Linux - which distro?



Carla Schroder wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 December 2006 20:12, Lacy Moore - Aspendora wrote:
>
>> On 12/6/06, John Novack <jnovack at stromberg-carlson.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Go get the ISO's, and remember to INSTALL EVERYTHING, then you won't run
>>> into some "gotcha" down the road where there is some missing file that
>>> needs to be put who knows where.
>>>
>> Wow!  Are you sure about that?
>>
>
> Doesn't seem like an issue to me. "yum install foo" is easy, and I've
always
> preferred servers that are as lean as possible, rather than all porky with
> unnecessary packages and services.
>
> Someone else mentioned AstLinux, and it is very nice. About 40
megabytes. No
> lard at all.
>
That may be true for you and those that know Linux and how to respond to
a missing file because it wasn't initially installed.
For those who don't practice Linux as a religion but simply want to use
a telephony application, it works to install everything, and move on to
learning Asterisk and all IT'S warts and gotchas,

John Novack

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