[Asterisk-Users] Best platform

[trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com]

On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 14:03 +0200, Michiel van Baak wrote:
> On 13:22, Sat 11 Jun 05, Serge Schumacher wrote:
> > What platform should you suggest to use asterisk ?
> > 
> > I tried with SUSE now all the time but there are too many problems with
> > the updates.
> > 
> > On is the development platform on which * is developed ?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> 
> I love the way the Debian updates work.
> And the Debian asterisk package includes the bristuffed
> patches.
> 
> I also run it on OpenBSD, but if you need zaptel drivers
> OpenBSD is not the way to go.

I use both debian and freebsd 5.x (really gotta use 5.x which is
'stable' now anyway).  Both update easily enough, although for my needs
I built CVS on my debian box.  I personally prefer either of those over
redhat and family (ie asterisk at home) but that is a personal
preference.  

I do voip only on the fbsd box and have both a x100p and do voip on the
debian box. 

To the original poster 'best platform' is a loaded question, quite often
you will hear peoples preferences (as I have done) sometimes their
preference is veiled as facts.  Best means many things, what hardware do
you have, what do you need to support, what environment is it going
into, and on a more personal note what are you personally familiar with
and prefer?  For the most part asterisk will run the same on any of the
linux distributions, freebsd 4.x it wont build, 5.x it will (havent
checked if it supports any of the FXO/FXS cards since that isnt a
requirement for me on that system), as the person I replied to said obsd
doesnt seem to like FXO/FXS, so ...

It is often a lot easier if you start with what you know and work from
there.  That way you arent learning a new way of doing things (even
between linux distros they each do configuration slightly different,
between linux and BSD many things are different).

Now if you are feeling saucy you could try to get it to build under
interix (posix subsystem for windows, some stuff off pkgsrc.org works
most doesnt)  http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu  I just wont vouch
for your sanity if you try (interix is really broken on several levels,
on a broad stroke it would be like darwin+macos only for windows, gives
you a /dev /proc etc - not a sandbox like cygwin).


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