[Asterisk-Users] Easiest (best?) linux distribution for dedicatedAsterisk box?

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FreePBX or AAH(aka trixbox) requires 256MB of RAM minimum to run properly.
Just sitting there doing nothing on my test system it is using 170MB.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lachek Butalek [mailto:lachek at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 7:27 PM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Easiest (best?) linux 
> distribution for dedicatedAsterisk box?
> 
> While it's not the way I do it personally, I've been told the 
> absolutely easiest setup is Asterisk at Home. It is based on 
> CentOS so security updates should be coming down at a decent 
> pace and I imagine this could be set up to occur 
> automatically. At that point, you pretty much have a 
> fire-and-forget Asterisk install with most of the bells and whistles.
> 
> My personal choice is Slackware - combined with a 3rd party 
> package managing tool called Swaret you can set up a very 
> slim, simple and secure box in a very short amount of time 
> and have do security patch deployments automatically, much 
> like CentOS/Redhat/etc. I'm personally running Asterisk with 
> FreePBX on an Apple PowerMac G3 266MHz using Slackintosh, 
> with great results so far.
> 
> Your system should be fine, though I'd probably dump some 
> more RAM into it if I were you - especially if you want to 
> run A at H, which uses a MySQL database and the Apache 
> webserver, among other things.
> 
> On 6/13/06, John Klimek <jklimek at gmail.com> wrote:
> > First off, I'm sorry for sending so many messages to the list-serv.
> > Hopefully this will be my last for a while!
> >
> > I was going to use my WRT54G router as a small Asterisk box, but I 
> > forgot that I had a spare eMachines computer (Intel Celeron 
> 633 MHz, 
> > 20GB HD, 64mb RAM).  Will this machine work OK for a very simple 
> > dedicated home Asterisk box?
> >
> > Also, what is easiest linux distribution to use and install?  All I 
> > want is a simple Asterisk box that I can telnet into and have 
> > voicemail, music-on-hold (MP3), etc...
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