Asterisk (geek girl)

[tjones at fastq.com]

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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