[Asterisk-Users] which distro for asterisk?

[Paul Mahler]

The Mepis Debian distro is pre-configured for *, www.mepis.org  They spent a
lot of time making Mepis work with * out of the box. 

Everyone has their own very strong opinions on which distro is better. I'm
not about to get into that. All I can say is Mepis is probably your fastest
easiest way to get * running. You can get Linux installed and * running VERY
quickly if you start with Mepis. 

Hope this helps,

Paul


Paul Mahler 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com 
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of 
> Tzafrir Cohen
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 6:07 AM
> To: Asterisk Users List
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] which distro for asterisk?
> 
> Hi
> 
> I want to play a bit with Asterisk. I currentlly install a 
> new system for that and I would like to get your 
> recommendations regarding the linux distro to use there.
> 
> This is NOT intended to become a general distro flame war. My 
> favorite distro is ******** and no argument that you flame 
> will convince me here (probably because I've heard it before).
> 
> However I would like to minimize the OS maintinance task. I 
> really wouldn't like to start worrying about upgrading sshd 
> due to some stupid secuirty hole, and to worry what will it 
> break on my system. I expect my distro to do that for me. 
> 
> I'd also like to have solid astrisk packages that won't break 
> unnecessarily when the sshd package is updated next time. 
> Hopefully also some sort of integration of zaptel in the 
> distro's kernel package.
> 
> I saw numerous complaints about "unofficial" RPM packages of asterisk.
> Besides them, the following free distros include asterisk packages:
> 
> 1. Debian: http://packages.debian.org/asterisk . 
> 2. Gentoo: Current package seems to be version 0.9.0 from 
> 10-May-2004 3. The DAG repository for RH/Fedora:
>    http://dag.wieers.com/packages/asterisk/
> 
> I have some experince with Debian, Mandrake and 
> RedHat/Fedora. I'm unfamiliar with Gentoo and I have no 
> good/bad experince with DAG packages with respect to quality 
> and stability.
> 
> Any recommendations, relevant experince and other learned opinions?
> 
> thx
> 
> -- 
> Tzafrir Cohen                       +---------------------------+
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