Asterisk (geek girl)

[JD Austin]

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)
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>> 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...
>>
>>