On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 10:06:55AM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > What is the easiest way to install an Asterisk system?
Regarding asterisk packages in distributions: Several distributions have decent packages of Asterisk. Debian ones are rather well-maintained, though the Lenny ones are currenty badly lagging (don't ask). Ubuntu packages are mostly based on the Debian ones. They don't seem to be active in providing security fixes. http://packages.debian.org/asterisk http://packages.ubuntu.com/asterisk You can get some of the latest voip-related bleeding edge packages built/backported for various Debian / Ubuntu distributions at the pkg-voip build server. See http://pkg-voip.alioth.debian.org/ . As for SuSE: I understand that they have Asterisk, Zaptel and (of course) mISDN packages. I don't recall any reports from anyone using them. Gentoo seems to have some elborate ebuilds with various options. It seems to be rather lagging, but maybe lately it has been catching up. There is a contrib package in Mandriva. Not sure of the quality. There is still no Fedora package. There is a good package at at-rpms. And other packages of lesser quality. There seems to be a well-maintained FreeBSD asterisk port. But I never actually tried to install it. > If I use OpenPBX.org, does this change things? I suppose you meant CallWeaver. http://callweaver.org/ (note: they don't use trac). OpenPBX is a free PBX program written by Voicetronix in PERL. Voicetronix is an interesting company (how many other companies do you know have the PCI vendor IDs named after the founder?) and certainly did not deserve that. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
