What Digium is using is rpath, RHEL /Centos<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Philipp Kempgen</b> <<a href="mailto:philipp.kempgen@amooma.de">philipp.kempgen@amooma.de</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Matt Riddell wrote:<br><br>> Steve Totaro wrote:<br>>> I am bringing up several Fedora Core 7 boxen into production now.
<br>>><br>>> Besides a knee jerk reaction that "Fedora Sucks", can someone give a<br>>> real argument as to why I should or should not use it for production?<br>>> (besides the several MB of yum updates daily, which to me is a good thing).
<br>>><br>>> Besides naming a flavor and saying "It is the best", can someone add a<br>>> few statements as to why, which will obviously have to compare the other<br>>> flavors.<br><br>> At the end of the day, the problem I see with Fedora is that they do
<br>> things slightly differently from other OSes in the placement of files<br>> etc, which can cause headaches you wouldn't see on others.<br><br>Exactly. I had some difficulties on Fedora as well (can't remember
<br>what kind of problem it was - something about zaptel I think) while<br>it "just worked" for me on Debian or CentOS.<br>(@Steve: So Fedora sucks and Debian is the best ;-)<br><br>> However, there are so many people using Fedora/CentOS/Redhat Enterprise
<br>> that a quick search of Google will normally reveal the result.<br><br>While I'm curious if there is a "best OS" for Asterisk it probably<br>boils down to the simple rule: Use whatever OS you are familiar with
<br>and stick to it.<br>If you're used to Debian then CentOS is "a bit different" too.<br>Unless someone can prove <whatever OS> is best for Asterisk I'd<br>recommend to use a mainstream distribution.
<br>Although I have compiled Asterisk on MacOSX myself this wouldn't be<br>my first choice for a production server - mainly because the whole file<br>system layout is so different and there isn't really an integrated
<br>package management.<br><br>> A lot of the differences between distros comes from their choice of<br>> package management systems.<br>><br>> Once you've used urpmi, yum, up2date, apt-get etc a few times it doesn't
<br>> really make too much difference which one you're using.<br><br>Right. But once you need a more complex set of software tools it's a<br>great timesaver to know what the packages are called on a system and<br>
what's in there.<br><br>A word on SuSE: To my impression YaST is an essential part of it.<br>On the one hand I like it but on the other - well, you can shoot<br>yourself in the foot.<br>It tries to be smart and parse all kinds of /etc/* files and doesn't
<br>always do a good job. Setting up a DHCP server with some classes and<br>pools for example is almost a piece of cake on Debian. On SuSE it's<br>more like this: Um, I could edit /etc/dhcpd.conf directly but then<br>
the next time someone edits the settings with YaST they'd really mess<br>things up - without even knowing.<br><br>I'm so glad nobody in this thread has argued for using Windows. ;)<br>(It doesn't even come with an ssh client! You really feel like
<br>your hands are tied.)<br><br>Regards,<br> Philipp Kempgen<br><br>--<br>amooma GmbH - Bachstr. 126 - 56566 Neuwied - <a href="http://www.amooma.de">http://www.amooma.de</a><br> Let's use IT to solve problems and not to create new ones.
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