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

[Carla Schroder]

On Thursday 07 December 2006 17:42, John Novack wrote:
> Carla Schroder wrote:
> > 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.
>
> That may be true for you and those that know Linux and how to respond to
> a missing file because it wasn't initially installed.
> For those who don't practice Linux as a religion but simply want to use
> a telephony application, it works to install everything, and move on to
> learning Asterisk and all IT'S warts and gotchas,
>

You're saying it's a religion to understand how to administer the operating 
system on a server? What a novel concept. 

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