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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 differenceI 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 old. It is also considered a bleeding-edge distribution and is a testing ground for new applications and features. As such, it has frequent updates (including the kernel) that aren't guaranteed not to break your system. If stability and long-term support are your goals, I recommend taking a look at CentOS <http://www.centos.org/>. It is a binary-compatible clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux that's free and has a very long support period. It's basically RHEL without the paid support contract. My migration to CentOS was painless, because the file system and configuration are practically identical to those of Fedora. Regards, Matthew Roth InterMedia Marketing Solutions Software Engineer and Systems Developer
We are using Fedora because that is what the company we got our system from recommended. If I was doing the system myself I would throw in my vote for CentOS. I am using it for a database server and I have had no problems with it at all. It is about as stable and secure of Linux distro as I have ever used. If you do go with them I suggest kicking the CentOS team a few dollars. They do dang good work. On Feb 1, 2008 9:16 AM, love U. all <the.love.4all at hotmail.com> 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 > ________________________________ > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! MSN Messenger > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
My suggestion - use the distro which you know best. We use Debian (200+ installations). It works stable for us because we know how to achieve it. Others use Fedora/Centos - because they are experts in these systems. Stability and performance of the system does not depend on the distro - only on person who built this system. Regards, Mindaugas Kezys http://www.kolmisoft.com MOR - Advanced Billing for Asterisk PBX -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of LWATCDR Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 6:14 PM To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Enterprise or Fedora? We are using Fedora because that is what the company we got our system from recommended. If I was doing the system myself I would throw in my vote for CentOS. I am using it for a database server and I have had no problems with it at all. It is about as stable and secure of Linux distro as I have ever used. If you do go with them I suggest kicking the CentOS team a few dollars. They do dang good work. On Feb 1, 2008 9:16 AM, love U. all <the.love.4all at hotmail.com> 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 > ________________________________ > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! MSN Messenger > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >_______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
Actively maintained or actively being broken and fixed with constant updates? Not something suitable for Production IMHO. Makes more sense for development and experimentation IMHO. -----Original Message----- From: Benny Amorsen [mailto:benny+usenet at amorsen.dk] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 1:54 PM To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Enterprise or Fedora? "shadowym" <shadowym at hotmail.com> writes:> I cannot think of a single reason to use Fedora for a production anything > when there are alternatives like CentOS. Fedora is bleeding edge stuffand> constantly changing.The advantage of Fedora is that it is very actively maintained -- and asterisk is only a yum install asterisk away! /Benny
I prefer CentOS barebone install and yumming the way up for dependencies but manually compile asterisk/zaptel . Ubuntu servers are pretty good too since its repositories are quite bigger compared to CentOS . On Feb 2, 2008 11:45 PM, shadowym <shadowym at hotmail.com> wrote:> Actively maintained or actively being broken and fixed with constant > updates? Not something suitable for Production IMHO. Makes more sense > for > development and experimentation IMHO. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Benny Amorsen [mailto:benny+usenet at amorsen.dk] > Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 1:54 PM > To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com > Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Enterprise or Fedora? > > "shadowym" <shadowym at hotmail.com> writes: > > > I cannot think of a single reason to use Fedora for a production > anything > > when there are alternatives like CentOS. Fedora is bleeding edge stuff > and > > constantly changing. > > The advantage of Fedora is that it is very actively maintained -- and > asterisk is only a yum install asterisk away! > > > /Benny > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20080203/fa9ba9e7/attachment.htm
Ubuntu server for me please simply, is better... install. then activate universe and multiverse repositories sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get build-dep asterisk and then... tar xvfz ./configure make make install ... is very very easy and clean, and IMHO i guess is better SO Ubuntu than any other RHEL based distro... IMHO RedHat sucks xP On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 03:59:47 +0530, "Jaswinder Singh" <vicky.r at gmail.com> wrote:> I prefer CentOS barebone install and yumming the way up for dependencies > but > manually compile asterisk/zaptel . Ubuntu servers are pretty good too > since > its repositories are quite bigger compared to CentOS . > > On Feb 2, 2008 11:45 PM, shadowym <shadowym at hotmail.com> wrote: > >> Actively maintained or actively being broken and fixed with constant >> updates? Not something suitable for Production IMHO. Makes more sense >> for >> development and experimentation IMHO. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Benny Amorsen [mailto:benny+usenet at amorsen.dk] >> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 1:54 PM >> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com >> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Enterprise or Fedora? >> >> "shadowym" <shadowym at hotmail.com> writes: >> >> > I cannot think of a single reason to use Fedora for a production >> anything >> > when there are alternatives like CentOS. Fedora is bleeding edge > stuff >> and >> > constantly changing. >> >> The advantage of Fedora is that it is very actively maintained -- and >> asterisk is only a yum install asterisk away! >> >> >> /Benny >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- >> >> asterisk-users mailing list >> To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >> > >
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, Just to throw in my 2 cents worth, I have been evaluating most of the 'big' distro's for my Asterisk platform and since I've used almost all of them I kept the pre-requisites to these standard options. 1. Package management - easy to administer, easy to upgrade and include development packages 2. System stability - Gotta be rock solid 3. Proprietary Code - It must be all open source 4. Standards Compliant With a lot of testing, compiling and downloading I came to the conclusion that the winner was Debian 'Etch' Reason: 1. Apt - The best package management system ever. 2. Rock solid platform, my other Debian servers have been running for years (and so have my CentOS servers so I'm not being biased) 3. The software is all open source. 4. I have a requirement for H323 in the vast majority of my asterisk boxes and it compiles brilliantly with Etch 5. 1 CD install - The Net-Install CD makes things neat 6. Slow release cycle and easy upgrade to latest version once released. CentOS came a very close second however it was the apt difference that clinched it for Debian. I would have went Ubuntu instead of Debian however the packages are not quite as concise and I'm still not sure on the whole 'sudo' method of security, its great for a desktop but the jury is still out on a server. Regards, Alan 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 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! MSN Messenger | <http://clk.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/> | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | | _______________________________________________ | -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- | | asterisk-users mailing list | To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: | http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users - -- Alan Hanley FSF Member 4949 Windows is a half-baked, dying OS that in essence is a 32 bit extension and graphical shell, for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system, originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHpkl3MRbQISW5zV8RAoBLAJ9Ga/dGRyZkQeBwrBNTVkIA5+jZtwCeLBO8 xNEKOPuH8t+lzRG7OUb7ChI=lAyF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----