[asterisk-users] Enterprise or Fedora?

[Steve Edwards]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Milton Calnek wrote:

>
>
> Matthew J. Roth wrote:
>> love U.all wrote:
>>> i wanna build a production Asterisk box ,will RedHat Linux Enterprise
>>> Server be more stable than Fedora core Linux  or it makes no
>>> significant difference
>> I started out running Fedora, but I have migrated away from it for a few
>> reasons.  Fedora has a very short life cycle and since the demise of the
>> legacy project there is no support for releases that are over a year
>
> I'd take it a step further... if you want asterisk on a stable platform,
> I'd suggest trixbox.  It is CentOS with an additional asterisk repo.
>
> It also comes with several additional apps like SugarCRM and web based
> management.

But all that cruft is not always appropriate -- parts left out don't get 
broke. They also don't need to be updated, suck up memory, cpu, disk or 
get in the way of learning how Asterisk really works.

I like to start with a minimal CentOS install -- de-select everything and 
then "yum install" just the packages you actually need.

Thanks in advance,
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