asterisk users - Dec 2006 - Switching from FreeBSD to Linux - which distro?

Does there seem to be a popular Linux distro folks use specifically for
Asterisk?  I'd like to move off of FreeBSD but I'm not too familiar with
Linux distros.  In particular, I'm looking for a free, stable, well
supported distro that has a friendly community.  Any advice appreciated.
Sorry for asking a question that I'm sure has been asked thousands of
times.

 

Best regards,

Phil 

 

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I recommend debian, been using it for years now, it was a no brainer
to choose this for my asterisk deployments.. A few other people I know
have used debian with asterisk with no problems either.

On 12/5/06, Phil Finkler <PhilF@iqconsultinginc.com>
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> Does there seem to be a popular Linux distro folks use specifically for
> Asterisk?  I'd like to move off of FreeBSD but I'm not too familiar
with
> Linux distros.  In particular, I'm looking for a free, stable, well
> supported distro that has a friendly community.  Any advice appreciated.
> Sorry for asking a question that I'm sure has been asked thousands of
times.
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> Best regards,
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> Phil
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On Tuesday 05 December 2006 15:36, Phil Finkler wrote:
> Does there seem to be a popular Linux distro folks use specifically for
> Asterisk?  I'd like to move off of FreeBSD but I'm not too familiar
with
> Linux distros.  In particular, I'm looking for a free, stable, well
> supported distro that has a friendly community.  Any advice appreciated.
> Sorry for asking a question that I'm sure has been asked thousands of
> times.
>
>
Debian is my fave, but for Asterisk I use CentOS. It's a free-of-cost clone
of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, so it's very stable and reliable, and Asterisk
runs
great on it. Debian is good too. They have Asterisk packages, but they're 
generally a little bit old. Source installations work fine. Both have large, 
active developer and user communities.

Avoid Fedora- it's too much of a moving target, and Asterisk installations
are
always a nightmare. Ubuntu is the darling of the Linux world, but I've had 
problems with Asterisk on it too.

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SuSE works well....

On 12/5/06, Phil Finkler <PhilF@iqconsultinginc.com>
wrote:
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>  Does there seem to be a popular Linux distro folks use specifically for
> Asterisk?  I'd like to move off of FreeBSD but I'm not too familiar
with
> Linux distros.  In particular, I'm looking for a free, stable, well
> supported distro that has a friendly community.  Any advice appreciated.
> Sorry for asking a question that I'm sure has been asked thousands of
times.
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> Best regards,
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> Phil
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> Does there seem to be a popular Linux distro folks use specifically for
> Asterisk?  I'd like to move off of FreeBSD but I'm not too familiar
with
> Linux distros.  In particular, I'm looking for a free, stable, well
> supported distro that has a friendly community.  Any advice appreciated.
CentOS works well for me : http://www.centos.org/

Phil Finkler wrote:
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> Does there seem to be a popular Linux distro folks use specifically 
> for Asterisk? I?d like to move off of FreeBSD but I?m not too familiar 
> with Linux distros. In particular, I?m looking for a free, stable, 
> well supported distro that has a friendly community. Any advice 
> appreciated. Sorry for asking a question that I?m sure has been asked 
> thousands of times.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Phil
>
Of course, this is like asking "what is the one true religion"
I consider Linux a means to an end, don't want to spend days poking 
around for some cryptic command or configuration issue, so I have 
settled on CentOS 3.x
I had some trouble way back with 4.x, , and saw no real value the later 
version
Go get the ISO's, and remember to INSTALL EVERYTHING, then you won't run
into some "gotcha" down the road where there is some missing file that
needs to be put who knows where. Turn off the GUI and have at it.

John Novack

In article <200612051559.55020.carla@bratgrrl.com>, carla@bratgrrl.com
says...
> Debian is my fave, but for Asterisk I use CentOS. It's a free-of-cost
clone of
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux, so it's very stable and reliable, and
Asterisk runs
> great on it. Debian is good too. They have Asterisk packages, but
they're
> generally a little bit old. Source installations work fine. Both have
large,
> active developer and user communities.
Hi Carla!

Can you tell me from where do you download rpm's for Cent OS 4?



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