[asterisk-users] Enterprise or Fedora?

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 09:58:28AM -0600, 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.

I'm sorry, but Trixbox (CE) and its like are modified versions of
CentOS, and those modifications are not always so standard:

1. Many changes in /usr/local and such rather than in packages. 
2. Kernel never gets updated. Even latest trixbox 2.2 versions are
   shipped with kernel from CentOS 4.3. CentOS has issued many updates
   since. Try to build your own kernel stuff on it.
3. It uses FreePBX, and this has its pros and cons. It is surely a
   comlpicated system to start with. If you happen not to like it,
   you're heading for much work in removing it.

So it's not simply "CentOS".

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