I never said it was perfect, just another option. I have no affiliation to 
either digium or trixbox, but I did try both ISOs when i was starting out 
with asterisk. I don't use either any more - CentOS, asterisk, vi.

I didn't give AsteriskNOW much time because it wouldn't play easily with the 
non-digium passive BRI card I had at the time. I found the install-zaphfc 
script for trixbox and it 'just worked' so I stuck with it. It probably 
helped that I was already familiar with CentOS too.

The 'FreePBX overwrote my edits' issue is a bit limiting. For most things you 
can edit the whatever_custom configs which it includes and does not 
overwrite, but there are things you just can't do this way. That's why I now 
use vi ;-) OTOH most people running a small setup won't need to edit the 
configs.

I agree with Andy about the concept of the internal http server, and trixbox 
runs too many things on the PBX for my taste, but to be fair I haven't seen 
this cause any problems in a small setup. Small was ~20 SIP clients and a 
single BRI running on a passively cooled Via C7, so not exactly a 
powerhouse :-) 

When I get the Freerunner one of the first things I'll be trying will be VoIP, 
so it's great to see someone at digium looking at this. If it's going to gain 
openmoko features I might have to look at the GUI again too ;-)

On Saturday 17 May 2008, Brandon Kruse wrote:
quoted text
> Heh,
>
> Try to actually edit the config files and then use it :P
>
> >From experience, asteriskNOW is my favorite, and the first platform
>
> I am going to get the client to work with automatically.
>
> (I am going to add an 'openmoko' option in the AsteriskGUI)
>
> AsteriskNOW Also has Digital / Analog card support for detecting /
> installing / configuring all digium Hardware.
>
> It also has auto provisioning for polycom phones.
>
> :)
>
> But, I work for Digium, so I am somewhat biased right? :P
>
> I will push for more features based on openmoko, in the GUI, however.
>
> -bk
>
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Al Johnson <openmoko@mazikeen.demon.co.uk>
>
> wrote:
> > Another bootable ISO to look at its trixbox
> > http://www.trixbox.com/products/trixbox-ce/features
> >
> > Both make setting up an asterisk server very easy. They also run
> > reasonably in
> > a virtual machine. trixbox has a few more bells and whistles; whether
> > this is
> > good or bad is a matter of opinion, as is preference between the
> > different GUIs.
> >
> > On Friday 16 May 2008, Brandon Kruse wrote:
> > > Yes,
> > >
> > > The iaxclient library I am implementing it in supports very very low
> > > bandwidth protocols.
> > >
> > > I have made a call of GPRS before, the only thing is the latency, but
> >
> > it's
> >
> > > somewhat useable still.
> > >
> > > I have worked on the GUI for Digium, so go here and install asterisk +
> >
> > the
> >
> > > asteriskGUI (AsteriskNOW bootable ISO)
> > > to get asterisk up and running quick:
> > >
> > > http://asteriskNOW.org/install-related
> > >
> > > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Travis Tabbal <travis@tabbal.net>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > > As a future user, I'm glad to hear about progress in this area. It
> >
> > might
> >
> > > > get me to actually set up an Asterisk server. :) Can we really get
> > > > the datastream small enough for GPRS?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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