[Bayonne-devel] A question of distros for delivery of prepacked solutions

[David Sugar]

Very late this year I plan to deliver some complete prepacked solutions, 
and I am curious which distro people would suggest to see such solutions 
delivered under.  I particularly like the idea of supporting a generic 
instant "voice application service provider out of a box" type solution 
with a future BayonneXML server bundled with ser (or maybe partysip), as 
well as very specific service provider solutions built around a 
traditional Bayonne server and ser (or partysip), or that uses Bayonne 
with traditional CTI hardware.

From an organizational point of view, it would make sense to use Debian 
(3.1) for these things and setup an appropriate Debian repository for 
Bayonne and other components.  I prefer to setup and use Debian in part 
because it has an intelligent deployment model, unlike the typical 
multi-cd rpm distro.  However my own experience is far more complete 
with packaging and setting up rpm based repositories and packages, and 
with creating RPM distro cd's with modified/alternate packages, and it 
is possible to equally imagine explicitly targeting centos/wbl/redhat 
enterprise and/or suse (or fedora for that matter).  Centos/wbl/rhe 
makes particular sense in terms of where existing vendors require 
telephony hardware, which sometimes is only supported under a specific 
and limited set of distros, and they often seem to choose rhe.

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