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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Since you opened this “Can-O-Worms”,
Digium “implicitly” endorses Scientific Linux and SVN branches
using Zaptel, based on my findings from SwitchVox. This being said, I’d
probably go with 1.4.21.X since anything above that replaces zaptel with DAHDI.
There are still a lot of things “To be worked out” in DAHDI –
Zaptel is a pretty solid standard. I’d stay away from OpenSUSE and
any other distro that releases new releases more than every 6 months.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com]
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Jimmy Ezell<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, May 28, 2009 12:49
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Asterisk Users Mailing List -
Non-Commercial Discussion<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [asterisk-users] Best
Current Release for Long Term Use</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>It has been suggested that I should do my
Asterisk tutorial (<a
href="http://qvlweb.blogspot.com/2009/04/asterisk-pbx-install-index.html">http://qvlweb.blogspot.com/2009/04/asterisk-pbx-install-index.html</a>)
using newer software, OK. </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>I hope this is not opening a big can
of worms, as I am sure there are a lot of different opinions about this, but:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>For a low/no growth company looking for a
long term, low maintance, basic phone system (Calls, Hold, Transfer, Park,
Conference), what is the best stable release of Asterisk to use?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Even worse question to ask, what is the
best Linux ditro to run Asterisk on?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Jonathan Thurman<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, May 20, 2009 4:33
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b>
asterisk-users@lists.digium.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [asterisk-users]
Step-by-Step Asterisk and MeetMe Help</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>From the front page ( <a
href="http://wiki.centos.org/FrontPage">http://wiki.centos.org/FrontPage</a> ):<br>
<br>
"<strong><b><font face="Times New Roman">What is CentOS?</font></b></strong>
<br>
CentOS is an Enterprise Linux distribution based on the <a
href="ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/">freely available
sources from Red Hat Enterprise Linux</a>. 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."<br>
<br>
CentOS 4 ( <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS4">http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS4</a>
):<br>
"We intend to support CentOS-4 updates until Feb 29, 2012"<br>
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CentOS 5 ( <a href="http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS5">http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS5</a>
):<br>
"We intend to support CentOS 5 until Mar 31st, 2014"<br>
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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)<br>
<br>
-Jonathan<br>
<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Jimmy Ezell <<a
href="mailto:jezell@hmhca.com">jezell@hmhca.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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>On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:07:25PM -0700, Jimmy Ezell wrote:<br>
><br>
>> multi-processor machine ( I had to remember to specify smp<br>
>for the kernel)<br>
><br>
>I repeat: why bother with such an old system? Really?<br>
><br>
>Recall the comment from the book. That book had nothing really specific<br>
>to Centos 4. Why do you shoot yourself in the foot by<br>
>installing Centos4<br>
>now?<br>
><br>
>(not to mention Zaptel)<br>
><br>
>--<br>
> Tzafrir Cohen<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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<br>
Jimmy</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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