[Asterisk-Users] Most desireable Linux distribution for Asterisk?

[Asterisk Lists]

We have a few Asterisk boxes running under Fedora C3 with no issues.
Before we roll into full production mode, we're wondering if the gurus
prefer any particular Linux distribution?

There are pre-packaged Asterisk solutions out there based on WBEL,
CentOS and a few others, so there doesn't seem to be a "de-facto best
choice", but I figured it was worth asking.

- D

[Michiel van Baak]

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We have a few Asterisk boxes running under Fedora C3 with no issues.
Before we roll into full production mode, we're wondering if the gurus
prefer any particular Linux distribution?
There are pre-packaged Asterisk solutions out there based on WBEL,
CentOS and a few others, so there doesn't seem to be a "de-facto best
choice", but I figured it was worth asking.

Hi,

There is no real answer to your question.
just use one you're most familiar with.

Personally I wouldn't survive without Debian ;)

[José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández]

Post by Michiel van Baak

Post by Asterisk Lists
We have a few Asterisk boxes running under Fedora C3 with no issues.
Before we roll into full production mode, we're wondering if the gurus
prefer any particular Linux distribution?
There are pre-packaged Asterisk solutions out there based on WBEL,
CentOS and a few others, so there doesn't seem to be a "de-facto best
choice", but I figured it was worth asking.

Hi,
There is no real answer to your question.
just use one you're most familiar with.
Personally I wouldn't survive without Debian ;)

And I would with it, I prefeer Gentoo.
Not tring to start a flamewar, just to show that there are various
distributions that are good for asterisk, almost any mainstream distro
targetted at servers (I wouldn't expect Ark Linux to be a good distro for
Asterisk) may be a good distro, and the big ones like Debian and Gentoo
already have some Asterisk packages.

[Nathan Pralle]

Post by Asterisk Lists
We have a few Asterisk boxes running under Fedora C3 with no issues.
Before we roll into full production mode, we're wondering if the gurus
prefer any particular Linux distribution?

Asterisk is really, really good at running on just about anything.
Where you get into distributions that are better or otherwise is when
you add in 3rd party utilities, tools, and applications. If you are
using a bunch of those, check for THEIR requirements, as the
distribution might matter more.

I'm using Slackware on my Asterisk boxes and it runs like a dream. I
have also managed Asterisk on FreeBSD, Debian, and RedHat w/o problems.

Nathan

[Matt Florell]

We have over 12 Asterisk servers running in production right now on
Slackware. We have used RedHat, Fedora, CentOS and Mandrake in the past as
well(we have since switched all servers to Slackware). For us Slackware runs
better and gives us more control. That and we like installing everything
from source.

MATT--

Post by Nathan Pralle

Post by Asterisk Lists
We have a few Asterisk boxes running under Fedora C3 with no issues.
Before we roll into full production mode, we're wondering if the gurus
prefer any particular Linux distribution?

Asterisk is really, really good at running on just about anything.
Where you get into distributions that are better or otherwise is when
you add in 3rd party utilities, tools, and applications. If you are
using a bunch of those, check for THEIR requirements, as the
distribution might matter more.
I'm using Slackware on my Asterisk boxes and it runs like a dream. I
have also managed Asterisk on FreeBSD, Debian, and RedHat w/o problems.
Nathan

[asterisk]

Thanks to all that responded.

Having been biased toward FreeBSD for the last 8 years or so, we're not
really tied by tradition to any particular Linux distro. We have customer
co-lo servers in our datacenter running pretty much all the major
distributions, and none really seems to stand out in terms of performance
and reliability. Its all quite reliable so it stands to reason that
personal preference and familiarity is usually the deciding factor.

Slackware was the very first *nix I ever loaded onto a PC about 10 years
ago. Maybe its time to give it another spin! :-)

- D

[Paul]

Post by José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández

Post by Michiel van Baak

Post by Asterisk Lists
We have a few Asterisk boxes running under Fedora C3 with no issues.
Before we roll into full production mode, we're wondering if the gurus
prefer any particular Linux distribution?
There are pre-packaged Asterisk solutions out there based on WBEL,
CentOS and a few others, so there doesn't seem to be a "de-facto best
choice", but I figured it was worth asking.

Hi,
There is no real answer to your question.
just use one you're most familiar with.
Personally I wouldn't survive without Debian ;)

And I would with it, I prefeer Gentoo.
Not tring to start a flamewar, just to show that there are various
distributions that are good for asterisk, almost any mainstream distro
targetted at servers (I wouldn't expect Ark Linux to be a good distro for
Asterisk) may be a good distro, and the big ones like Debian and Gentoo
already have some Asterisk packages.

Debian has always been great for my server needs. I wouldn't bash other
distros in general. I would avoid using a distro that focuses mostly on
being a user-friendly workstation for something like asterisk.