[VoIP] Fedora, CentOS or What?

[John Novack]

Shane Young wrote:
> 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.
>>     
> <snip>
> 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 wonder how this would work with the cheaply available HP "thin Client" 
units?
64 Meg of flash, 128 meg of ram, 800 Meg processor?

Can you supply any details on installation? Either on or off list? The 
Flash on these units is plug compatible ( though of the wrong sex ) with 
the 2.5 Hard drive. With the right cable a HD can be substituted for the 
flash memory. Main memory on some can be upped, but not the 5520.
These may be an interesting alternative to the "Asterisk in a Router" 
some have been using.

Lets explore this further.

John Novack

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