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philipp.kempgen at amo...
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 10:46 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best Linux distribution to use in Asterisk

equis software schrieb:

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Hi, I allways use Gentoo y my Asterisk servers and work well, but what do
you think about to use Ubuntu or another distibution??

I prefer Debian, but if everything works well and if you're
familiar with Gentoo why change?
Gr??e,
Philipp Kempgen
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drew at oanda.com
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 10:50 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best Linux distribution to use in Asterisk

equis software wrote:

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Hi, I allways use Gentoo y my Asterisk servers and work well, but what
do you think about to use Ubuntu or another distibution??

Thanks

I have run Asterisk on several Fedora versions, Debian, Unslung (on the
NSLU2 or "Slug") and recently Ubuntu. My most critical servers are on
Debian and new ones will be on Ubuntu LTS.

I have had very few OS specific issues. I have always built from source
except on the Slug but I noticed that Ubuntu has it in the apt
repository which would be a great convenience if you are new to Linux or
manage a lot of servers.

For a newbie, I would recommend an Ubuntu LTS release.

Pick the distro you are most comfortable with.

regards,

Drew

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stotaro at totarotechn...
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 10:54 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best Linux distribution to use in Asterisk

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Philipp Kempgen
<philipp.kempgen at amooma.de> wrote:

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equis software schrieb:

Quote:

Hi, I allways use Gentoo y my Asterisk servers and work well, but what do
you think about to use Ubuntu or another distibution??

I prefer Debian, but if everything works well and if you're
familiar with Gentoo why change?

Gr??e,
Philipp Kempgen
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amooma GmbH - Bachstr. 126 - 56566 Neuwied -> http://www.amooma.de
Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Stefan Wintermeyer, Handelsregister: Neuwied B14998

They all seem to work pretty well including busybox. Just waiting on
a VxWorx port.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro

stotaro at totarotechn...
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 10:56 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best Linux distribution to use in Asterisk

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Drew Gibson <drew at oanda.com> wrote:

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equis software wrote:

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Hi, I allways use Gentoo y my Asterisk servers and work well, but what
do you think about to use Ubuntu or another distibution??

Thanks

Fedora has a yum install of Asterisk as well. And while off-topic,
they just added GNURadio to the repos.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro

equissoftware at gmail...
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 12:04 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best Linux distribution to use in Asterisk

Thanks to all.
I will try with Ubuntu Server edition and test what happend.

Thanks again!
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Al Baker <bwentdg at pipeline.com> wrote:

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this often becomes a religious discussion.
my free advice worth all you paid for it - Redhat or one of the other
distros that has been Certified on your choice of hardware and which has
a Support Contract on it. Despite what others will tell you... Its a
lonely place when your box no-workie and you have no support contract.
if you buy Redhat on an HP box that is certified for it. It WILL work or
they WILL get it working.
sure maybe someone somewhere on some mailing list has the answer. But
you got 96 lines down with a box
and customers screaming....... You want to hope, that maybe, someone
will respond an respond correctly to
your problem on a mailing list, or call a Customer Support Center
staffed 24x7 with engineers trained on your specific hardware and you
specific O/S ?

Philipp Kempgen wrote:

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equis software schrieb:

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Hi, I allways use Gentoo y my Asterisk servers and work well, but what

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you think about to use Ubuntu or another distibution??

I prefer Debian, but if everything works well and if you're
familiar with Gentoo why change?

Gr??e,
Philipp Kempgen

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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 12:49 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best Linux distribution to use in Asterisk

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Al Baker <bwentdg at pipeline.com> wrote:

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Interesting it never occurred to you that if it's not Redhat it wont
have that problem to begin with. You see, if it has a commercial
available support they got to make money, they therefore have to make
sure it goes down Razz

Just don't blame this religious war on me. You started it Smile

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and customers screaming....... You want to hope, that maybe, someone
will respond an respond correctly to
your problem on a mailing list, or call a Customer Support Center
staffed 24x7 with engineers trained on your specific hardware and you
specific O/S ?

Philipp Kempgen wrote:

Quote:

equis software schrieb:

Quote:

Hi, I allways use Gentoo y my Asterisk servers and work well, but what do
you think about to use Ubuntu or another distibution??

I prefer Debian, but if everything works well and if you're
familiar with Gentoo why change?

Gr??e,
Philipp Kempgen

shmaltz at gmail.com
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 12:49 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best Linux distribution to use in Asterisk

I use Slackware.

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:19 AM, equis software <equissoftware at gmail.com> wrote:

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Hi, I allways use Gentoo y my Asterisk servers and work well, but what do
you think about to use Ubuntu or another distibution??

Thanks

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david_nedved at yahoo.com
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 1:00 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best Linux distribution to use in Asterisk

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Hi, I allways use Gentoo y my Asterisk servers and work well, but
what do
you think about to use Ubuntu or another distibution??

I don't know what's prompting you to leave Gentoo but it's gotten much
better with respect to asterisk very recently. That's all I use and I
have to say that after a very frustrating year they've come forward
leaps and bounds in the last few months. They actually have 1.4, 1.6,
and versions of zaptel that work with modern kernels now finally! If
you haven't already, look into the voip overlay. They seem to work on
it in spurts of activity and although not much has changed in it for
several weeks it does contain a relatively recent 1.4 version that
works just fine for me on my tiny production environment.

Best regards,

David

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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 1:12 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best Linux distribution to use in Asterisk

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:00 PM, David Nedved <david_nedved at yahoo.com> wrote:

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Hi, I allways use Gentoo y my Asterisk servers and work well, but
what do
you think about to use Ubuntu or another distibution??

Hearsay says that SwitchVox runs on FC6.

Thanks,
Steve Totaro

asterisk.org at sedwar...
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 1:29 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best Linux distribution to use in Asterisk

On Fri, 9 May 2008, Al Baker wrote:

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I've used CentOS without any OS issues.

Doesn't the "certified" support thing die a quick death when you install
"non-certified" kernel drivers like Zaptel? Or "upgrade" to a current
kernel?

Crap like "try it without the driver your application won't run without
and if you still have a problem call back?"

Thanks in advance,
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joakimsen at gmail.com
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 1:33 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best Linux distribution to use in Asterisk

I think it's all personal preference.... I'd never recommend anyone
use ubuntu for anything, honestly.

SLES is my #1 pick with CentOS / PNAELV being a close second...
problem with Cent is there's not central administration like there is
in SuSE (YaST2... it's so simple! gotta setup a network no ifconfig up
this route add that just point and click or use the ncurses
interface.. same for just about every service)... not even an
interactive package manager thats usable from the CLI. You might be
able to get by with openSuSE but remember the lifecycles are short,
like Fedora.

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:19 AM, equis software <equissoftware at gmail.com> wrote:

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joakimsen at gmail.com
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 1:43 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best Linux distribution to use in Asterisk

Oh, and FWIW a Cisco uses PNAELV as the basis for one of it's most
popular voice products.

http://www.bouncethem.com/5455
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:19 AM, equis software <equissoftware at gmail.com> wrote:

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tzafrir.cohen at xorco...
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 6:56 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best Linux distribution to use in Asterisk

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 11:50:59AM -0400, Drew Gibson wrote:

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equis software wrote:

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Hi, I allways use Gentoo y my Asterisk servers and work well, but what
do you think about to use Ubuntu or another distibution??

Thanks

Now that you mention it, are packages of that distribution really
maintained?

The recent volnurability of AST-2008-006 is a good test case for that.
If affects both 1.2 and 1.4 .

The annoncement by Digium:

http://downloads.digium.com/pub/asa/AST-2008-006.html

As with the previous ones, the text is quite clear about the fix.
"backporting" that patch to a slightly older version is not that tricky
(and it is something that a distribution package maintainer is used to
doing anyway).

So what about updates?

The LWN page for this advisory only lists Fedora and Debian:

http://lwn.net/Articles/280318/

Response ime in both was quite reasonable.

LWN also tracks adsisories from various other distributions. You can see
the list in http://lwn.net/Alerts/ . The following other distributions
have 'asterisk' packages:

* Gentoo
* Mandriva (??? - probably only in contrib and is unsupported)
* rPath (Not sure. See below about AstriskNOW)
* SUSE
* Ubuntu (the package is in 'universe', and not officially supported)

The issue is listed as corrected in AsteriskNOW 1.0.3, but the latest
version available for download is 1.0.2 .
If I read rpath's repository page correctly, then the most recently
released version of Asterisk is 1.4.17-2 , from Feb-2008 and thus does
not contain this fix.

To see the versions of packages i Ubuntu:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/asterisk

As you can see, both Hardy and the development distribution (Interpid)
include the same version of the package. As you can see from following
the changelog link:
http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/universe/a/asterisk/asterisk_1.4.17~dfsg-2ubuntu1/changelog

The security issues of 1.4.18.1 were backported to that 1.4.17 package.
But nothing about the recent advisory.
The Gentoo port is basically where the Ubuntu package is: missing only
the last one:

http://packages.gentoo.org/package/asterisk

The FreeBSD port has not been updated yet. It is still at 1.4.18, and no
sign of backported fixes:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/net/asterisk/

OpenBSD port was updated pretty fast (by upgrading to asterisk 1.4.19.1)

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/telephony/asterisk/

I don't know where to look for in other distributions.

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