[Asterisk-Users] Absolute Minimum Installation Packages

[David Gomillion]

I can understand the size concerns for putting it in an appliance or
what-not.  However, my opinion is that, due to the low cost of hard disk
space, it is cheaper for the company to go out and buy another hard disk
to replace the extra 500 MB they wasted on a sub-optimal installation
than to pay me to try to get the installation as small as possible.

What are the benefits to a really tiny installation, aside from possible
appliance applications?  Moreover, won't you still need a sizable hard
disk for voice prompts, voicemail messages, sound file to direct people
to dial the correct extension, etc?

Again, I may be WAY off track, but one of the things I really like about
* is that I can update it easily.  Wouldn't you lose some of the beauty
by putting it in an appliance?  

Moreover, I HATE Nortel because they have a user-unfriendly interface,
proprietary controls, non-standard connections, and the like.  It seems
to me that by appliance-izing we would be inviting the same abuses that
the current systems enjoy.  I could see it becoming an issue of
open-source software on extremely proprietary hardware, meaning the user
can modify their system if they can figure out how to get in it.

Of course, all of this is in the assumption that the end-user wants to
own their PBX.  I know I do.  I think that we should be focusing on a
useful administrative interface, database-based extension definitions,
and other features that will advance the power, flexibility, and
usability of * instead of shrinking the distro as much as possible.

What am I missing?  I see many people much smarter than I am excited
about this, so I am sure I simply failed to consider how it will
revolutionize everything.

Awaiting your enlightenment (preferably sans-flame),
David Gomillion


-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-admin at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Brancaleoni
Matteo
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 8:48 AM
To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
Subject: Re: [Asterisk-Users] Absolute Minimum Installation Packages

Hi.

Il ven, 2003-10-31 alle 02:31, JR Richardson ha scritto:
> I'm trying to get the total Linux/* installation size as small as
> possible.  I'm wondering if anyone has looked at the installed
> packages list from the Redhat installation [rpm -qa] and has parsed
> out all packages not needed for * to run.  I follow the custom install
> guide from Andy Powell but the installation yields 948+ Meg with 340
> installed packages.  I'm sure most of those packages can be
> eliminated.

I have a very little RedHat 9.0 installation that's about 504 MB,
with asterisk+sounds+some voicemail installed. Also devel
tools installed. Also apache+mysql+db, since we have many things
of asterisk moved onto a mysql db...
stripping away devel tools, I can manage a to have 450Mb RedHat 9.0.
surely big, but very small to be a RH ;)


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Brancaleoni Matteo <mbrancaleoni at espia.it>
Espia - Emmegi Srl

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