<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Michael,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This grabbed my attention. I'm fairly new to * and have been going back and forth among linux distros. The one I have found most stable is FC4, specially considering the fact that I use ztdummy since I don't have zap boards in them.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Now, I've seen AstLinux postings on the list every once in a while but I never really bother to look into it, until I read your posting. It certainly looks interesting. The thing that caught my attention most is the fact that it's such a small footprint, that it could be relatively easy to build an small asterisk farm of servers that could allow "easier" scaleability as well as build redundancy and fault-tolerance.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Now, the question I have is what would be the simplest configuration of hardware/AstLinux you would recommend for a small office that would have 40 SIP phones and 1 T1 Digium/Sangoma card with a channel bank on the smallest footprint running off of CF?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks for your input.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Waldo</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 3, 2005, at 5:18 PM, Michael Graves wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Finally, Astlinux is such a usefull and reliable thing. My * server</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">boots from CF and stores configs and VM on a USB key. While it's on a</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">UPS if it goes down for some reason it boots up to fully functional in</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">about a minute. It's totally silent, fanless and just plain cool. One</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">box. This serves my small office well.</FONT></P> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>