19 thoughts on - Which Linux For Asterisk?

• I’m running Asterisk since several years on Ubuntu without any issues.

  Debian should be fine too.

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• And for those that have no idea as to what he is referring to (I
  didn’t), here is the Register article

  https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/09/CentOS_red_hat/

  Doug

• 09.12.2020 13:20, Frank Vanoni пишет:
  Thank you.

  This gives me just about 3-4 years of support, considering 2 years between LTS,

  and upgrading remote server can be pain.

  Anyway, this is good option…

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• Upgrading a Debian server to the next release is a whole lot easier than doing a CentOS one.

  Antony.

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• 09.12.2020 15:07, Antony Stone пишет:

  There was no need to upgrade  CentOS, only replace server. 10 years…

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• 09.12.2020 16:03, Julian Beach пишет:

  No! I need to install several new servers this year 🙁

• Am 09.12.20 um 12:07 schrieb Antony Stone:

  Correct. Although upgrading from CentOS 7 → 8 would be easier. I’m almost lucky about that CentOS Distro will surely switching now, because Debian/Ubuntu has bigger software repositorys. I missed in the past some packages…

  Kai

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• This machine I visited yesterday in our data center… it is running Ubuntu 14… I would say this is a pretty stable platform 🙂

  Cheers,

  j

• 09.12.2020 16:52, Jeff LaCoursiere пишет:

  Ubuntu 14…

  It is not supported for years now.

  This is not our method, we are replacing CentOS 6 servers now…

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• Debian6 is very stable too.

  I have some… in production 🙂

  Or not.

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  Le 2020-12-09 14:06, Dmitry Melekhov a écrit :

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• 09.12.2020 17:12, Michel FACERIAS пишет:

  we had windows  servers randomly rebooting several years ( really, long time) ago, because we had no updates installed….

  you are running system with many known holes, this is not our method of operation  🙂

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• Ya, I wouldn’t say this is our normal behaviour – to complete ignore a running production system for four years, but if it ain’t broke…

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• I think you have the wrong definition of “broke/n”. It may continue to be running the same way as it has for years, but during that time people have discovered ways in which the software on that machine turns out to be broken
  (which they didn’t know at the time you installed it).

  Therefore your machine is in fact “broke/n”; it’s a state it’s got into gradually over a period of time as people have found more and more bugs &
  vulnerabilities in its code.

  Antony.

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• Well, I already got on result:

  As I suspected using Debian or Ubuntu leads to running unsupported OS
  version, because even LTS is too short..

  Anybody knows which linux Sangoma developers are using now?

  09.12.2020 11:03, Dmitry Melekhov пишет:

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• Le 09/12/2020 à 15:46, Dmitry Melekhov a écrit :
  Hu ? 5 years is too short ? You stay with the same hardware more than 5
  years ?
  Daniel

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• I can only speak for the Asterisk development team at Sangoma but some of us use Fedora, Ubuntu based stuff, CentOS. From a project level our supported platforms philosophy/policy are on the wiki[1]. We don’t have a specific version list, but we try to be reasonable with the popular distros and non-end of life versions.

  [1] https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Supported+Platforms

• 09.12.2020 18:52, Joshua C. Colp пишет:

  CentOS  8 will be dead in 1 year from now 🙁

  “The Asterisk project supports 32-bit and 64-bit x86 platforms using non-end of life CentOS, RHEL.”

  Well, if you supports RHEL, then Oracle is good or not?

  What is your opinion about RHEL clones after IBM killed CentOS? Will be RHEL or Oracle supported?

  Thank you!

• From an open source project perspective we would accept issues filed when the underlying Linux distribution is one of those, as they are from RHEL. What we don’t support is for example Gentoo, Arch, Slackware, that kind of thing.

• 09.12.2020 20:13, Joshua C. Colp пишет:

  Thank you very much!

  Then I have to choose between Oracle and Ubuntu, btw, I currently run both, not for asterisk, though…