[Asterisk-Users] Debian Sarge or CentOS4.3

[Tom]

At 06:25 PM 6/21/2006, you wrote:


>Looks like I am going to be doing my first serious commercial install of
>FreePBX.  I DO mean serious.  They are willing to put up with a few glitches
>initially which is why I have decided they will be a good first client.  I
>have turned down several over the past couple years because I just did not
>feel comfortable with the state of software/hardware.  It seems to work much
>better now.
>
>I was wondering if anyone can recommend a good software platform.  I have
>been using Debian Sarge and CentOS 4.3 for testing and feel that either one
>will do just fine.  I was wondering if anyone has any recommendations based
>on experience.  Any rock solid installs out there on either as a
>testimonial?

You will get many opinions on this one.

They are both rock solid.  Choose a path and stick with it for all of 
your servers.  We started with CentOS but moved to Sarge when it 
became stable.  We have been running several Sarge * servers for 6 to 
9 months without any problems.

We spent the last 7 years running our ISP on RedHat.  Started looking 
at other distros when the RH policy changed.  Tried a bunch.  I 
really like the Debian distro and the strategy behind it.  I like the 
boot speed.  I like the simple elegance of apt.  We are now in the 
process of moving all our RH9 machines to Sarge.

I don't like the fact that CentOS is nothing more than a copy of RH 
Enterprise Server.  It is almost like running a Windows clone.  I 
would rather find and run something better.

Tom