If you’ve been away from the Raspberry Pi world awhile, welcome to the club. We began with the $35 Raspberry Pi when Eben Upton was literally making house calls. We got to meet Eben and his wife when he visited Charleston early on. But WOW have things changed. The Raspberry Pi 5 and the 500 keyboard version are powerhouses. And today we have a special treat for those of you that still have a RasPi 4 or 400 as well… Read More ›
Today marks the one-week anniversary of Debian "trixie" 13.5 bringing critical security patches and some minor stability updates to this new operating system. It also addresses a major Linux kernel privilege escalation flaw (CVE-2026-46333) affecting default installs of Debian 13 as well as critical kernel patches. Debian 13 "trixie" will be supported for 5 years with three years of full, standard support and two years of Long Term Support (LTS). With this new Debian 13.5 release, it seemed only fitting… Read More ›
We’re two weeks late, but here’s a belated Happy New Year 2025 with an all-new Incredible PBX release. And we’re two days early celebrating the 20th birthday of Nerd Vittles. The good news is the hits keep coming thanks again to the yeoman’s work of Joe McConnaughey, aka @kenn10. The new Incredible PBX 2025 offering incorporates the latest releases of Asterisk® and FreePBX®. Better yet, it offers a choice of Linux platforms including Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and… Read More ›
In case you missed it, Broadcom purchased VMware® from Dell in late 2023 for $61 billion. While pricing for commercial licenses went up, the good news for hobbyists is that Broadcom immediately rebranded VMware Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro for Macs as free offerings for personal use. While open source virtual machine platforms have dominated the marketplace over the past few years, if you fall into the personal use group, then this is a deal you can’t refuse. That’s not… Read More ›
If you’ve been searching for a free, open source provisioning system for your SIP telephones and you’re using Incredible PBX 2027 or other FreePBX® 16 platforms, your prayers have been answered thanks to the hard work of Bill Simon. What this buys you (for free) is a quick way to configure SIP devices from most of the major players shown above including Aastra, AudioCodes, Cisco, Linksys, CloudTC, Digium, Grandstream, Intelbras, Mitel, Norphonic, Patton, Polycom, Snom, Thomson, Unidata, Xorcom, and Yealink.… Read More ›
For those with an existing virtual machine platform either at home or at the office, today is your lucky day. We have an Incredible PBX image for VirtualBox, VMware, Proxmox, Windows WSL, Mac UTM, and Linux Containers LXC that will have an Asterisk® PBX with FreePBX® up and running in less than 5 minutes. If you’ve ever wanted to kick the tires on a fully-loaded, secure PBX that offers virtually every telephony feature on the planet, now’s your chance. And… Read More ›
In our last post, we catalogued the various ways to deploy an Asterisk® PBX using existing Windows, Mac, or Linux desktop hardware. But that solution isn’t ideal for everyone especially if you’re looking for a cloud-based platform that provides redundancy and backups. So today we’ll introduce some cloud platform Asterisk solutions, at least one of which can be deployed in under five minutes. Let’s begin with our personal favorite, CrownCloud. For $25 a year, you get a 5-minute install from… Read More ›
To say the New Year is ushering in a scaled back constituency for self-managed telephony systems would be an understatement. Much of this migration from Asterisk® can be traced directly to the proliferation of cell phones coupled with the expansion of Zoom and Microsoft Teams deployments thanks to the COVID nightmare. Despite Sangoma’s best efforts to commercialize Asterisk and FreePBX®, we think there’s still a place for free systems especially turnkey Asterisk PBX deployments that can coexist on Windows, Mac,… Read More ›
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