[Asterisk-Users] Fedora Core 3 or Fedora Core 4? yum update ornot?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 01:03:51PM -0500, Paul wrote:
> Ryan Amos wrote:
> 
> >This is turning into a sysadmin theory flamewar, but I think the main
> >point is that Fedora probably isn't the best thing to run on production
> >machines for QA reasons. This is because Fedora is more or less the QA
> >testbed for RHEL. CentOS is, for all intents and purposes (except a
> >little bug I discovered with large block devices >2 TB) the same as RHEL
> >without the support contract, so it is probably a better choice for a
> >server you want to keep working for a while.
> >
> >Debian stable would probably work just as well (though IMO debian tends
> >to be a bit TOO old,) as would SUSE's stable release version. Just don't
> >use a "testing" release on a production machine. "yum update" (or
> >up2date, or apt) is pretty safe on "stable" release trees, but in the
> >testing releases you can run into problems with package dependencies,
> >versions, slowly updated mirrors... you get the point.
> >
> >  
> >
> Debian stable is not so old. No decent distro is going to do a new
> stable release every time a new asterisk, openoffice, firefox, etc. is
> released. That's why they call it stable.
> 
> There are several ways to get newer asterisk versions onto a debian
> stable system. The end user decides what risks to take in modifying any
> stable distro. Best approach for me has been to limit those changes to
> what I really must have. I take something like a new openoffice and try
> it out on a debian system running testing or unstable. If I like it
> enough, I find or build debian packages for the stable release. I think
> this sane and careful approach works with most linux distros but I have
> seen some distros where the testing or unstable branch was not
> installable at times.

http://backports.org seems to be building Asterisk 1.2 relatively
regularly from Unstable. We (Xorcom Rapid) also provide rather
compatible Sarge backports of "all things Asterisk"

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