FOOD FOR THOUGHT Ubuntu Mini vs. new Lean Mean Asterisk Machine

[sactobob]

Hi Ward,

I saw earlier where you replied regarding Centos vs SL linux as pretty much to same branding to avoid Red Hat "issues". I'm curious why the switch also from previous Ubuntu Distro to SL? I guess it doesn't matter much as in the end you have a running Asterisk 13. I don't much care if it's 32-bit or 64-bit, there's not enough load or reason for one or the other.

I did your ubuntu mini install about 6 months back, but never had the chance to migrate my Sangoma(r) nagging GUI over to a "clean" break from them. Lots of configs to redo as I'm sure a backup/restore from 12 to 13 is fruitless and not recommended. But now that I have some time I figured I'd start fresh again and came across your new Lean, Mean Asterisks Machine with SL and was going to ask the same question about versions, but found you'd answered that. I did have a few errors and warnings, which I assume is safe to ignore as the process goes on and seemed to "adjust" to various issues (dhcp vs. static with suggestion/help). There was one point I noticed several loops of :

STOPPING ASTERISK
Waiting for Asterisk to Stop Gracefully...

Asterisk Stopped
SETTING FILE PERMISSIONS.....................sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo
.done
Removing any dangling symlinks
dangling symlinks removed

STARTING ASTERISK

This would repeat about 4-5 times and then proceed. At the end of the install everything is running fine though, so I assume this is "normal"?

Anyways, as usual with your stuff, at the end of the install process I had a fresh running "ready to roll" Asterisks 13.

Much Appreciated,

-Bob

 

[wardmundy]

@sactobob: Thanks for the kind words. There are some bumps along the road still but, as you said, when the install finishes, everything works. I'm agnostic about the RedHat vs. Ubuntu platform debate. Licensing-wise, Scientific Linux is the cleanest image build for us because the federal government spent money creating it which protects everyone's rights to use it without the trademark and image gotcha's of which we are all aware. We've tried to migrate all of our PBX installs to secondary installers that are run AFTER the operating system already is put in place. But there are many that still prefer a self-installing image so we've tried to support that as well with the Scientific Linux ISO and now with a Raspbian 4 image for the Raspberry Pi 3.