[asterisk-users] Switching from FreeBSD to Linux - which distro?

[Carla Schroder]

On Wednesday 06 December 2006 20:12, Lacy Moore - Aspendora wrote:
> On 12/6/06, John Novack <jnovack at stromberg-carlson.org> wrote:
> > Go get the ISO's, and remember to INSTALL EVERYTHING, then you won't run
> > into some "gotcha" down the road where there is some missing file that
> > needs to be put who knows where.
>
> Wow!  Are you sure about that?

Doesn't seem like an issue to me. "yum install foo" is easy, and I've always 
preferred servers that are as lean as possible, rather than all porky with 
unnecessary packages and services.

Someone else mentioned AstLinux, and it is very nice. About 40 megabytes. No 
lard at all.

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