Asterisk (geek girl)
JD Austin
jd at twingeckos.com
Tue Mar 4 06:12:41 MST 2008
A simple IMAGE hosted on their server would indicate such a thing, to me
that cinched it for me.. no more TB.
I was glad I dropped TB long before that came out.
I tried Elastix but didn't like the changes they interface made to
FreePBX/etc.
I suppose I could do with it like I did with AdminsParadise.
Once you upgrade everything their custom interface goes away.
I only use such distributions to save time anyway.
Hopefully PBX in a flash won't get corrupted by corporate influences like TB was.
JD
Geek Girl wrote:
> Yes despite the reasurances they still will not say what EXACLY is sent to
> their servers and the mechanism is still in tact...The need it for "funding"
> so that they can prove that trixbox CE is actually being deployed...
>
> However you can disable the chron job AFTER the initial install and initial
> "phone home"
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <tjones at fastq.com>
> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 8:33 PM
> Subject: Re: Asterisk (geek girl)
>
>
>
>> Quoting Geek Girl <geekgirl28 at cox.net>:
>>
>>
>>> Well the Phoenix Asterisk Users Group is going to be organizing. I do
>>> know
>>> this first hand. =-)
>>>
>>>
>> I don't supposed you would care to expand on this?
>>
>>
>>> Alas AdminsParadise is officialy a dead project.
>>> Elastix has hylafax bundeled in thier distro...
>>> The biggest problem right now with trixbox is that there are 4 people
>>> that
>>> work on it...2 developers and a sales guy and a Package dude..Oh and dont
>>> get me started on the fact that your trixbox has a cron job that sends
>>> your
>>> data to trixbox servers...this was a HUGE fiasco about a month
>>> back....This
>>> was previously unreleased info to the community. Fonality has put all of
>>> their money and energy in trixbox PRO..(which is a peice of cr at p)
>>> You can compile on the back end...HA but if they do not support the card
>>> you
>>>
>>> cannot configure it in the GUI....and void any waranty bla bla bla.....
>>>
>>>
>> The phone home fiasco wasn't the worst of it, they had a mechanism that
>> would
>> have allowed Fonality to download files and/or run arbitrary commands as
>> root.
>> Despite reassurances and disclaimers from Fonality in their public forums,
>> I
>> downloaded PBX in a Flash the same night I read that thread, and I'm not
>> going back.
>>
>> If anyone cares, unlikely as that is, the thread starts here:
>> http://www.trixbox.org/forums/trixbox-forums/open-discussion/trixbox-phones-home
>>
>> The ironic thing was, I was only reading the forums after a Trixbox update
>> broke
>> my config.
>>
>> TJ
>>
>>
>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "JD Austin" <jd at twingeckos.com>
>>> To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>>> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 1:13 AM
>>> Subject: Re: Asterisk (geek girl)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> I used trixbox until Fonality took them over.
>>>> The problem with trixbox and it's predecessor asterisk at home was that
>>>> releases were seldom released without major issues.
>>>> I spent more time fixing delivered bugs than anything else.
>>>> The upside of that is that I learned a lot about asterisk and freepbx.
>>>> I got used to immediately upgrading every core component right after
>>>> install.
>>>> Now days I don't use Trixbox at all.
>>>> I've tried several other distributions and for a time liked
>>>> adminsparadise because it bundled hylafax/avantfax.
>>>> They stopped updating so I started updating it myself; now their site
>>>> is
>>>> gone :(
>>>> I've been using PBX In A flash since it existed and of all the distros
>>>> it's been the most stable out of the box.
>>>> If it had hylafax/avantfax bundled and oslec it would be perfect.
>>>> End point manager was nice though pbxinaflash has command line tools to
>>>> set up
>>>> snom, aastra, grandstream, polycom, cisco, and linksys.. I don't know
>>>> how well they work though.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone know where/when they'll have a Phoenix Asterisk User Group
>>>> meeting? It's been 'organizing' for about a year ;)
>>>>
>>>> JD
>>>>
>>>> Geek Girl wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I would like to clarify....trixbox is a great system but the package
>>>>> manager
>>>>> sometimes has very broken things onit. Or you are forced into having
>>>>> the
>>>>> versions of asterisk and zaptel that trixbox wants to release etc. It
>>>>> is
>>>>> a
>>>>> great system if you want a system that you dont change or update
>>>>> often.
>>>>> PBX
>>>>> in a flash builds a generic CentOS base and then runs scripts to build
>>>>> asterisk/zaptel and freePBX (the web GUI) and still has everything but
>>>>> the
>>>>> end point manager. My last comment was a bit calus so I felt the need
>>>>> to
>>>>> clarify a bit...=-)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Geek Girl" <geekgirl28 at cox.net>
>>>>> To: "Main PLUG discussion list"
>>>>> <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>>>>> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 6:17 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: Adterisk (geek girl)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> That depends lol. If you want a system that is controlled by a
>>>>>> package
>>>>>> manager and that most of the time is screwed up go with trixbox...
>>>>>> If you want something that has tons of community support and that you
>>>>>> can
>>>>>> compile with from source and that is still using a CentOS5 base I
>>>>>> would
>>>>>> go
>>>>>> with PBX in a flash....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The only real thing that trixbox has going for it really is the
>>>>>> endpoint
>>>>>> manager...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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