[asterisk-users] which OS would be fine for asterisk

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What Digium is using is rpath, RHEL /Centos

On 8/25/07, Philipp Kempgen <philipp.kempgen at amooma.de> wrote:
>
> Matt Riddell wrote:
>
> > Steve Totaro wrote:
> >> I am bringing up several Fedora Core 7 boxen into production now.
> >>
> >> Besides a knee jerk reaction that "Fedora Sucks", can someone give a
> >> real argument as to why I should or should not use it for production?
> >> (besides the several MB of yum updates daily, which to me is a good
> thing).
> >>
> >> Besides naming a flavor and saying "It is the best", can someone add a
> >> few statements as to why, which will obviously have to compare the
> other
> >> flavors.
>
> > At the end of the day, the problem I see with Fedora is that they do
> > things slightly differently from other OSes in the placement of files
> > etc, which can cause headaches you wouldn't see on others.
>
> Exactly. I had some difficulties on Fedora as well (can't remember
> what kind of problem it was - something about zaptel I think) while
> it "just worked" for me on Debian or CentOS.
> (@Steve: So Fedora sucks and Debian is the best ;-)
>
> > However, there are so many people using Fedora/CentOS/Redhat Enterprise
> > that a quick search of Google will normally reveal the result.
>
> While I'm curious if there is a "best OS" for Asterisk it probably
> boils down to the simple rule: Use whatever OS you are familiar with
> and stick to it.
> If you're used to Debian then CentOS is "a bit different" too.
> Unless someone can prove <whatever OS> is best for Asterisk I'd
> recommend to use a mainstream distribution.
> Although I have compiled Asterisk on MacOSX myself this wouldn't be
> my first choice for a production server - mainly because the whole file
> system layout is so different and there isn't really an integrated
> package management.
>
> > A lot of the differences between distros comes from their choice of
> > package management systems.
> >
> > Once you've used urpmi, yum, up2date, apt-get etc a few times it doesn't
> > really make too much difference which one you're using.
>
> Right. But once you need a more complex set of software tools it's a
> great timesaver to know what the packages are called on a system and
> what's in there.
>
> A word on SuSE: To my impression YaST is an essential part of it.
> On the one hand I like it but on the other - well, you can shoot
> yourself in the foot.
> It tries to be smart and parse all kinds of /etc/* files and doesn't
> always do a good job. Setting up a DHCP server with some classes and
> pools for example is almost a piece of cake on Debian. On SuSE it's
> more like this: Um, I could edit /etc/dhcpd.conf directly but then
> the next time someone edits the settings with YaST they'd really mess
> things up - without even knowing.
>
> I'm so glad nobody in this thread has argued for using Windows. ;)
> (It doesn't even come with an ssh client! You really feel like
> your hands are tied.)
>
> Regards,
>   Philipp Kempgen
>
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