Linux Gen 2 work with asterisk?

Asterisk Asterisk Support
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hello,

we are having someone install linux on our computer so i can put asterisk on it.

I took them redhat 8.0 but the computer is too new, it has sata dvd drive and hard drive. The guy says he can just put gen 2 linux on it and it work.

Will this be fine for asterisk?

thanks (i dont know linux operating systems…)

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Ok

I woulndt normally say this,

But just download trixbox or AsteriskNow

For pitys sake dont get some one to install an old version of linux, Trix for instance will even recognise Dells Sata mirror drives.

Do you realy think digium have gone to all the effort of creating AsteriskNow just for the fun of it, No it because a massive amount of problems with Asterisk installs is due to poorly installed and configured OS.

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oh i didnt know it was old.

i seen the asterisknow was gui, i just want a text base version

hmmm…has anyone had bad luck with linux gen 2? is that mane its linux 2.0 or something?

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Then dont use the GUI !

The backend is all the same. or grab a copy of Pound Key which was the non Gui version for 1.2.

If you dont know linux dont make your life harder than it already is.

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[quote=“CustomGT”]oh i didnt know it was old.

i seen the asterisknow was gui, i just want a text base version

hmmm…has anyone had bad luck with linux gen 2? is that mane its linux 2.0 or something?[/quote]

my guess is that your guy is referring to gentoo linux, gen 2 as in generation 2 or version 2.

gentoo is not for the newbies. i’d seriously recommend centos for someone completely new, just because so many people use centos and because trixbox uses it. the trixbox people can deal with any problems in new releases of centos first, then we learn from their mistakes. gotta make use of them somehow :smile:

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I couldnt agree more. CentOs is RHLE without paying for it :smile: . I have also found lots of documentation out there as well as very helpfull people out on thier irc channel (irc.freenode.net #centos)

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fedora core 6 is also a good choice

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gentoo and gen2 are different?

Anyways he is putting asterisknow on it…
I have no experience with linux, unix i have done openbsd and openvpn…

everything else in my world is windows

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Linux is the king. I was sold on Windows untill I tried Linux. On average our windows servers were down once every few weeks. With linux I have little to no down time.