[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk 0.7.1 RH 7.3 RPMS Released

[Senad Jordanovic]

WipeOut wrote:
> Greg Boehnlein wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, WipeOut wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> This is great to see.. but why RH7.3 (or RH8 for that matter) since
>>> it has already been EOL'ed by RH??
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> Couple of reasons..
>> 
>> 1. It is a stable, known quantity that uses solid components and
>> closely
>> mirrors the environment that a lot of people develop Asterisk on. It
>> isn't going to drastically change, so those wishing to deploy it in
>> production may look to RedHat 7.3 as a stable platform for that
>> purpose. 
>> 
>> 2. 8.0 and 9.0 are really not "server" oriented distributions of
>> RedHat.
>> RedHat started using a lot of edge technology in the later versions
>> of RedHat (newer Glibc, newer GCC) and as a result, I know very few
>> people (and I know a lot in my Industry ;) that are deploying
>> commercial, production servers on top of RH 8 and 9. It's great for
>> the DeskTop, but not in the Data center. As with all things, this is
>> based on my personal opinions, so your mileage may vary! ;)
>> 
>> 3. I want to refine the RPMS a bit and do some updates and changes to
>> the
>> .specfiles. If I have to maintain 7.3, 8.0, 9.0 and FC1 releases,
>> that is 3 times the build work. Work will proceed a lot more rapidly
>> if I just have to do a weekly update for one platform.
>> 
>> 4. I run Asterisk on top of RH 7.3 currently and it suited my needs.
>> ;) 
>> 
>> 5. I haven't yet built my 8.0, 9.0 and Fedora Core 1 development
>> environments for Vmware, although the SRPMS that I released -SHOULD-
>> build on them without modifications.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> For those who use RH or Fedora Core, RH9 is EOL in April and FC2 is
>>> scheduled for release in April as well..
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> See #5! ;)
>> 
>> 
>> 
> I understand or agree with all of your points..
> 
> My biggest problem is that RH has basically dropped me in the "poo" by
> killing off their free version and stopping support for all the free
> versions as well.. I have been looking at alternatives but so far
> nothing is going to fit the bill.. The other distro's are either way
> off 
> the mark or too difficult to get running in the first place or to
> difficult to manage in a production enviroment.. also I can't affort
> $400 for RH Enterprise Linux for each of my test/demo/dev servers.. I
> guess there are many with the same problem.. :(
> 
> Later..
> 
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Have you tried www.gentoo.org . We are using it currently on a couple
servers
And it works great.