[VoIP] Fedora, CentOS or What?

[John Novack]

Boy, you Brits really know how to start a religious argument!!

My choice has been, for better or worse, CentOS.
CentOS version 3 works well on 1.2 versions
CentOS 4/5 seems to be required on the 1.4 versions
So far I have seen no reason to move to 1.4, though some have for 
various reasons
Many on the Asterisk users list consider 1.4 still unstable, though I 
doubt any of the Cnet uses will be affected.
I always install everything ( moans from the Linux gurus here ) but I 
have found it easier to install everything and then turn off services I 
don't need, rather than later battle some cryptic message regarding a 
missing dependency that I can't fix or know where to stick a file.
I also use the full, rather than the server version, and do an update 
from yum before proceeding to Asterisk.
I have cloned several hard drives for others on CNET with fair success, 
saving having to start from scratch every time.
Easier to change a machine name and such than reinstall everything from 
scratch.
Acronis version 9 handles Linux disks well, even when the geometry isn't 
the same.

Others can comment on the other religions. I suppose it is down to 
whatever we have been imprinted with in our early Linux days, and what 
we have become familiar with.
I have dabbled in the Debian pool, but have not met with any success.

John Novack


Jonathan Kay wrote:
> 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.
>
> CentOS 4, was available in a "Server" edition. I had problems compiling 
> the latest zaptel with that and had to upgrade kernel etc. CentOS 5, 
> doesn't offer the server edition.
>
> Fedora 5, and 6, I think had kernel version issues, again I had lots of 
> trouble compiling Asterisk with FC6. I don't know if 7 is ok?
>
> Ubuntu is great, I use desktop and server versions. But it is Debian 
> based, and the community here and on the UK list tend to use flavours of 
> Red Hat with Asterisk, so getting CNET support might be more tricky.
>
> Comments welcome !?
>
> Jon
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