[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk on windows

Neil Cherry ncherry at comcast.net
Wed Sep 28 07:32:25 MST 2005


Matt wrote:
> Why on earth would you want to run it on Windows?  First off, your
> performance is going to go down because of the GUI... oh your call
> quality just went down the toilet?  Yeah sorry the screen saver just
> kicked in.   Having issues making calls?  Oh sorry we had to reboot
> for a critical update.   Yeah I know audio isn't working right, the
> swap file is a little large right now, we need to reboot.
> 
> Are you on crack?!?!   Asterisk runs well on Linux because of the lack
> of a GUI... sleek simple interface (text) to it.   Linux is free,
> windows adds a license cost.   Since you shouldn't be running any
> other applications on the server anyway, why not just install Linux? 
> Trying to run it on windows seems like a bad idea to me.

I think this poor user saw the 2.0 announcement and thought it was
real. Somebody should change that to 13.0 instead, I nearly freaked
when I saw it until I realized it was a joke.

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