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

[Derek Whitten]

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,
> 
> John Novack
> 
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That sounds like a microsoft way of doing things.. install 25X more crap than you will
ever use.   What ever happened to planning and RTFM?



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