[VoIP] Fedora, CentOS or What?

[Shane Young]

Quoting Jonathan Kay <g4vft at btinternet.com>:

>
> Chaps.
>  If you started from scratch now, what would be your Linux distro of
> choice for a purely Asterisk box?
> I'm building a few machines to pass on at cost price.

I have recently (in the last two years) started using Gentoo.  It's a  
little tricky to install the first 2 or 3 times, but after a while  
I've found I'm almost as comfortable installing it as I was with  
Slackware.  Previously (for the last 13 or so years) Slackware was my  
preferred distro.

I'm a little supprized that there isn't much discussion about  
AstLinux.  The whole thing can run on a 64meg compact flash card (or  
from a regular hard drive).  If you have a new enough machine that  
will boot from USB, you can install it on a thumbdrive.

It's Linux built just for running Asterisk with very little overhead.

I'm in the process now of building some machines using AstLinux to try  
it out.  I'll have two external compact flash card slots.  One for  
AstLinux and one for the configuration files.  If the AstLinux card  
fails, I just build a new one on my PC (about a 5 minute process),  
replace the old one and reboot.  All of the configuration is read from  
the config card.

I'm curious what you mean by "getting CNET support might be more  
tricky".  Are you referring to getting support from other CNET members?

--Shane
+1-821-7311 CNET

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