Intro and Questions...

[Gerry Hull]

Hello All,

I've been lurking on this list for a few weeks, and thought I'd introduce
myself and ask a question...

I'm an almost-50 software engineer and been writing code for about 25 years
now... mostly in the Windows world...

In my day job, I work in the telecom world, writing .Net software that works
with PBX products from the likes of Cisco, Nortel, Avaya and Siemens.

In my free time, I've discovered Linux and open software.    I run a lot of
servers at my house, and one of them is an Asterisk distribution called
PBX-in-a-Flash (www.pbxinaflash.com).   I've been writing a lot of php and
bash scripts and having a lot of fun with it.

My question has nothing to do with Asterisk, though.   A friend and I are
building an Applications Server product that we want to run on both Windows
and Linux.   I am planning to do the Linux side using Mono, (LAMM, Linux,
Apache, MySQL, Mono instead of LAMP) so I can leverage my .Net codebase.
For some of you purists, that may not be the "right" strategy, but for us
it's time-to-market issue.

My question is this:  Have any of you had experience with Mono?  What distro
did you use?   What distro would you recommend?
Our end goal is to build a custom distro, which will install the OS from an
iso, an after initial boot, downloads the latest application code
and install it.

TIA,

Gerry Hull
Greenfield, NH
gerry at telosity.com (email/sip)
+1-603-547-4005
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