Hi All;
Anyone tried to install Asterisk based on UNIX (not
linux)? Which UNIX was good to work with Asterisk?
Regards
Bilal
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bilal ghayyad wrote:> Hi All; > > Anyone tried to install Asterisk based on UNIX (not > linux)? Which UNIX was good to work with Asterisk?Linux is UNIX, for intents and purposes related to Asterisk. Try *BSD. -- Alex Balashov Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671 Mobile : (+1) (706) 338-8599
> Alex Balashov wrote: > Linux is UNIX, for intents and purposes related to Asterisk.Well... not so much! If you want "real" UNIX, go for a BSD or God forbid, SCO OpenServer. Their pedigree is from AT&T UNIX (SYS V Rel 4?) which is considered to be the "real" UNIX. However, as time has gone by, Linux has far surpassed them. So, as for UNIX-like operating systems, Linux is one of the best "UNIX-like" operating systems. Mac OS X is based on BSD - so, if you want "real" UNIX, it could be a choice too... Linux is my choice. Just my 2 cents. SCO OpenServer? Well, valued even less than my 2 cents!
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 14:46 -0800, bilal ghayyad wrote:> Hi All; > > Anyone tried to install Asterisk based on UNIX (not > linux)? Which UNIX was good to work with Asterisk? > > Regards > BilalOn what ground would you refrain from using any linux based distro?
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 05:24:53PM -0600, Bill Andersen wrote:> > Alex Balashov wrote: > > Linux is UNIX, for intents and purposes related to Asterisk. > > Well... not so much! If you want "real" UNIX, go for a BSD or > God forbid, SCO OpenServer. > > Their pedigree is from AT&T UNIX (SYS V Rel 4?) which is considered > to be the "real" UNIX. However, as time has gone by, Linux has > far surpassed them. So, as for UNIX-like operating systems, Linux > is one of the best "UNIX-like" operating systems. Mac OS X is based > on BSD - so, if you want "real" UNIX, it could be a choice too...Actually, "UNIX" [tm] Describes meeting a standard, and not development history. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix#Branding -- Tzafrir Cohen icq#16849755 jabber:tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com +972-50-7952406 mailto:tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com http://www.xorcom.com iax:guest at local.xorcom.com/tzafrir
bilal ghayyad wrote:> Anyone tried to install Asterisk based on UNIX (not > linux)? Which UNIX was good to work with Asterisk?Works fine for us, in a FreeBSD jail. Very lightweight (100K RAM and .5G disk) and very secure even without a jailed environment. Also prefer BSD ports to Linux' RPMs or DPKGs with all their hard-coded dependencies. If you compile you can pick and choose only the resources you want, but unless you compile from a ports tree you'll still not get granular updates when new versions are available. That's not to say *BSD is better mind you, it has it's pluses and minuses. Generally what you know is best, but if you run Linux I recommend Ubuntu. None of the RPM-based distros are half as secure. Only thing that limits our use of Linux is the monolithic kernel, which _always_ breaks something when upgraded. YMMV, Roger Marquis