[Asterisk-Users] kind of urgent

[Gilad Ben-Yossef]

Shoval Tomer wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> Can anyone comment why shouldn't we use FC 3 for an * production system?
> 

For the same reason you should not use Fedora Core line for ANY 
production system, as it designers intend it to be an experimental 
branch. In particular, FC3 has the NSA's SELinux patches integrated and 
enabled for the first time in any general purpose distro - one day it 
will be a great technology, but do you REALLY want to test this on your 
PBX system?

> I'm not looking to start a distro war, but we just found out that redhat
> 9 (and FC 1) don't support SATA drives, and apparently FC 3 does.
> 
> We are only familiar with red hat and are in a point in time that
> switching distros is not available.
> The guy installing the system is already on location.
> 
> Yes, I know we made a silly mistake. Please help us...

I would go with either RedHat Enterprise 3.0 (in case you have the money 
for the support contract and patience to the stupid local marketing 
drones that know nothing from Matrix) or with WhiteBox Enterprise Linux 
(a recompilation of RHEL 3.0 from the same sources minus some 
trademarked pictures and costly support contract) if you don't.

Hope this helps,
Gilad