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bwentdg at pipeline.com
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 10:59 am Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best Linux distribution to use in Asterisk

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 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

andres at paglayan.com
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 12:56 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best Linux distribution to use in Asterisk

On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 12:19 -0300, 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??

if it ain't broken don't fixit,
I used debian, now ubuntu,
...but if your thing needs to be production like,
I'd try to use the same distro and chip the Asterisk developers use,
I am not sure, but I believe they tend to be red hat like,
(FC or CentOS will do) and Intel,

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Thanks

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milton at calnek.com
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 2:39 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best Linux distribution to use in Asterisk

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Gibson wrote: \| On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 11:19 AM, equis software <equissoftware at gmail.com> \| wrote: \| \|>> Hi, I allways use Gentoo y my Asterisk servers and work well, but what do \| \| We use Ubuntu Server on a few of our servers and it's been working fine. We The best distribution to use is the one you are already familiar with. Unless of course you are planning to be come more familiar with another distribution. - -- Milton Calnek BSc, A/Slt(Ret.) milton at calnek.com 306-717-8737 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIJKiMHgnbf2T2QqMRAn+fAJ9Sj2dUPjlZttxaTTKsBaPDZvecUQCfbTAI 5iwpM+5wasTvz5h1e4zotk0= =EOAg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

abalashov at evaristes...
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 3:55 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best Linux distribution to use in Asterisk

I always do Debian, but, as others have pointed out, six one, half-dozen the other. I always build from source and typically rebuild the kernel as well in a lot of cases (i.e. to make ztdummy work well requires a 1000 Hz timing resolution), so it's not really an issue either way. Linux is Linux is Linux. -- Alex Balashov Evariste Systems Web : http://www.evaristesys.com/ Tel : (+1) (678) 954-0670 Direct : (+1) (678) 954-0671 Mobile : (+1) (706) 338-8599

tzafrir.cohen at xorco...
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 6:58 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best Linux distribution to use in Asterisk

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 04:55:47PM -0400, Alex Balashov wrote:

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I always do Debian, but, as others have pointed out, six one, half-dozen
the other. I always build from source and typically rebuild the kernel
as well in a lot of cases (i.e. to make ztdummy work well requires a
1000 Hz timing resolution),

Not with fairly recent kernels wit high-resolution timers.
I suspect a recent kernel from backports.org will work just as well.

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drew at oanda.com
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 1:28 pm Post subject: [asterisk-users] Best Linux distribution to use in Asterisk

Tzafrir Cohen wrote:

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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

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.

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 optware feed for Unslung (on the NSLU2) is up-to-date on Asterisk
1.4 with 1.4.19.1 but a rev or two behind on 1.2 with 1.2.24

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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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Drew Gibson

Systems Administrator
OANDA Corporation
www.oanda.com

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