[Freeswitch-users] Should I switch to Debian?

[Jai Rangi]

I agree with Alex, Linux is Linux, I have used Redhat, Fedora. CentOS
Ubuntu, it really does not matter.

-J

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Carlos Ruiz Díaz <carlos.ruizdiaz at gmail.com
> wrote:

> +1 on Alex's approach.
>
> I used to use RPMs, but constantly waiting for them to be updated turned
> into a PITA, so I switched to source code as well.
>
> Regards,
> Carlos
> On May 19, 2015 16:56, "Alex Balashov" <abalashov at evaristesys.com> wrote:
>
>> My personal view is that distro packaging for Freeswitch, Asterisk,
>> Kamailio, and most OSS VoIP elements is unreliable, inconsistent and
>> lopsided, so the only viable approach is to build these things from source,
>> always. This allows one to maintain granular version controland to apply
>> ‎patches as needed.
>>
>> If you just forget packaging and learn to love the source, you'll obviate
>> a vast category of problems and not waste time on fighting with packages.
>> It also has the positive side effect that you can support pretty much any
>> server distribution. Debian, CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu server, who cares?
>>
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