[asterisk-users] Step-by-Step Asterisk and MeetMe Help

[Jeff LaCoursiere]

So you were fourteen and a military engineer?

j

On Wed, 20 May 2009, ContactTel Business wrote:

> Many years in telecom  and computer world is around 100 year in real life..
> 10 years ago i was a millionaire in the dot com boom and 24 years old with a
> P2 300 computer.., 20 years ago i was military engineer and running on 3.76
> MHz 386's amber screens.. last year it was dual cores, today its quad/opt
> cores, and tomorrow morning it's going to be quantum physics/organic
> computers and VOIP will be of the past, since Voice over Something else will
> arrive.
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> You can't put a system and let it go for 3-4 years unless you don't have any
> growth, ( new drives = new technology , IDE/SATA/ISCSI) new RAM/ NEW CPU/
> etc all these need software upgrades eventually..
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> As far as my personal experience i reformat my desktops /fully, semi
> annually, and all servers get a facelift every other month ( new glib for
> new freeswitch updates, new ZAP hardware ? then you need new zaptel.. wait
> zaptel aka dhadi needs X, X needs Y.. and so on..
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> Mike
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> ContacTel.COM
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> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan
> Thurman
> Sent: May-20-09 7:33 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Step-by-Step Asterisk and MeetMe Help
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> From the front page ( http://wiki.centos.org/FrontPage ):
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> "What is CentOS?
> CentOS is an Enterprise Linux distribution based on the freely available
> <ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/>  sources from Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux. Each CentOS version is supported for 7 years (by means of
> security updates). A new CentOS version is released every 2 years and each
> CentOS version is regularly updated (every 6 months) to support newer
> hardware. This results in a secure, low-maintenance, reliable, predictable
> and reproducible Linux environment."
>
> CentOS 4 ( http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS4 ):
> "We intend to support CentOS-4 updates until Feb 29, 2012"
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> CentOS 5 ( http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS5 ):
> "We intend to support CentOS 5 until Mar 31st, 2014"
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> So if you don't want major upgrades for a while you might want to go with
> the latest version.  To put it into Microsoft terms...  the minor version is
> like a service pack.  So CentOS 4.7 is really a base lined version 4,
> service pack 7.  You get the new features in major releases (like there are
> no more "smp" kernels in 5 to deal with)
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> -Jonathan
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> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Jimmy Ezell <jezell at hmhca.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:07:25PM -0700, Jimmy Ezell wrote:
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>>> multi-processor machine  ( I had to remember to specify smp
>> for the kernel)
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>> I repeat: why bother with such an old system? Really?
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>> Recall the comment from the book. That book had nothing really specific
>> to Centos 4. Why do you shoot yourself in the foot by
>> installing Centos4
>> now?
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>> (not to mention Zaptel)
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>> --
>>               Tzafrir Cohen
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> Tzafrir thanks for the comments.  I am not done playing with this and in the
> end I may well use newer software as you suggest.
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> According to wikipedia CentOS 4.7 was released OCT. 2008 (7 months ago) is
> that really consider that old?  I am looking to setup a phone system that I
> would hope would not require any major software upgrades for many years.
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> Jimmy
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