Comments on: Announcing PBX-in-a-Flash: A New Asterisk Platform for Everyman… and Woman!

By: williamts99

williamts99 — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 02:53:12 +0000

Also, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM might be a bit more up to date on using md5 sums.

By: jpe

jpe — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:33:09 +0000

Thanks Uncle Ward. I have been using AAH since it’s inception and must say it hasn’t been the same since it got Trix’d.
Been using the easyvoxbox distro of late as. Waiting for yours impatiently.

By: Corey

Corey — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:51:35 +0000

Thanks for the update ward. Looks like we have semi been doing the same thing (other than the hosting). I have been in the process of making a debian/ubuntu cd with all the asterisk stuff on it. I am not finished yet, but I do have a working system. I was also tired of the closed development. There used to be something going on every week and I couldn’t wait to see what was next. I then saw my self getting bored and the project going astray once Trixbox ‘took things over’. THey don’t even release their scripts anymore. I didn’t want the whole iso. I had to hack up their script quite a bit so it didn’t try to take over permissions it shouldn’t have…

Can’t wait to see what you have… Maybe once I get things going I may send along to you what I have as well!

Corey N3FE

By: John Rogers

John Rogers — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 22:02:10 +0000

I would like to see either a Debian or Ubuntu based Asterisk. I used to be a fan of the "redhat" type stuff, and lately have appreciated the "Debian Style" package management style of doing things. Also, I think based on my own trials, a debian-based OS is far more "vendor neutral" and efficient int eh use of resources than a RH or "RPM" based distro. Just my .02 worth. Would really like to see it. Cheers. Keep up the good work.

By: rob

rob — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:45:12 +0000

sweet deal

thanks guys
I was hoping for a return of astradex
and this come with a sweet new lighter loaded system

no offense Kerry but trix was a great thing did a huge service for the asterisk community up until fonality started swaying the focus of the project as many of us were afraid it would we were hopeful that
it wouldn’t and it still helped get these packages we love to use
get to where they are. I say way to go Ward and crew thanks for all the time so far glad to see you finally roll your own from
the ground up

By: RonR

RonR — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:40:48 +0000

Go NerdVittles

By: riccardo capra

riccardo capra — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:06:52 +0000

Never thought about integrating Hylafax? I tried Elastix, and I liked very much the fax features, in Italy we still use a lot the faxes

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:03:56 +0000

I sure hope you figure out how to apply updates without reloading the entire OS from an iso each time. I always hated this about the aah/trixbox project: it was always a mess to keep the fully configured and stable OS and update from the update scripts. Things broke. A lot.

Some use the box concurrently for a bit more than just Asterisk, and dumping a fully configured box for an update is not much fun.

By: RavenII

RavenII — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 09:39:24 +0000

I guess TrxBox got tricked out by fonality!, looking forward to flash around in a PBX!

By: Myke

Myke — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:14:58 +0000

This is GREAT NEWS Ward!!! Somehow it just seems Trixbox has just to many Trix!! Ward I hope your goals and the MANY who will use it will keep it simple like the old days of AAH… And when it comes to teaching it to do new things… maybe they can be introduced without breaking other things 😉 … http://www.centpbx.com/downloads.html reminds me of the Good old days.. Asterisk with just enough "Training Wheel"(FreePBX) to get you going …then you can add what you like!

Thank you Ward!!!

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:39:10 +0000

A sugestion…. I use a dedicated servers for asterisk and I do not physical access to them. That’s why an ISO installation would be more cumbersome. I think alternative ways of installation (such as tgz, rpm) and upgrade would be very good for situations like mine.

By: TDave

TDave — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:27:14 +0000

I am getting ready to start a project that will need a click to call feature. Your hosted service may be a great fit.

By: RobertE

RobertE — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:45:34 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I agree 100%. "a little too proprietary, too closed, and too commercial for our open source, puritanical tastes."

Keep up the good work.

By: Mukesh Aggarwal

Mukesh Aggarwal — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:07:03 +0000

Kerry, I think this project was initiated because people got frustrated by stagnation of trixbox. It has been really long time since the last ‘stable’ build of trixbox. Also instead of letting people experiment (read Tom’s script) it was frowned upon. Letting people upgrade their kernel etc was also not supported.
Also some of things like registration requirements etc. have turned off some of the people.
Nothing personal against you, but people like to have options. And if they don’t get it at one place they will go another place.

By: Adrian Hensler

Adrian Hensler — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:00:45 +0000

I’m very curious what the problems were with Ubuntu; I’ve not had any serious problems getting a voip-only solution running on Ubuntu server. I’ve taken care to document the steps I’ve followed – indeed; I got many of them from this site! I’m curious to know if I’ve missed some pitfalls….

By: Kerry Garrison

Kerry Garrison — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:41:38 +0000

We love Ward and NerdVittles but still don't understand the comments since we do not consider trixbox to have closed development, the fact is, 99.99999% of users do not contribute anything to development, mostly because they do not have the programming skill to do so. We wish Ward the best in this new business venture. I also don't understand some of the messages I have received that this is a major competitor to trixbox. trixbox is a pure 100% GPL open source project and this new project is part open source and part commercial hosted PBX platform that they hope to monetize. We are not in the same market as we do not have a hosted PBX product. [WM Clarification: This project will be 100% open source. Nothing in the project is "part commercial." You've gotten us confused with somebody else, Kerry. There will be a migration path to and from a hosted PBX platform, but the provider can and does host many different Asterisk implementations. The difference will be the ability to transparently migrate to and from the provider's hosted platform.]

By: Telemach

Telemach — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:48:41 +0000

these icons are widely available from http://www.kennonsoft.org/

By: dw

dw — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:43:31 +0000

Finally, some hope for the aah project. Lets have some fun.

By: Abe

Abe — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 14:47:43 +0000

I am soooo looking forward to this. As soon as Trixbox was sold to Fonality, we all knew the end was in site. I wish you good luck!!

By: James

James — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 02:35:08 +0000

Sweeeeeeeeeeet!!!

By: Mukesh Aggarwal

Mukesh Aggarwal — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:50:03 +0000

I have my personal box running Fedora + asterisk + freepbx. I chose this path about year and half and no regrets. Do you think Fedora would be better choice than Centos ? Fedora is more widely accepted than Centos.
I recently did install asterisk+freepbx with Ubuntu on a prehistoric laptop for a friend of mine since fedora wouldn’t install on that one. Worked without too much of issues. I installed bare bone ubuntu (server install) and then added asterisk, zaptel and freepbx. No issues. Currently I am configuring (just need to add trunks) a fedora image so that I can use it as backup when upgrading my real * box.
I can whip up vmware image of both ubuntu or fedora if required.

By: Robert Adelman

Robert Adelman — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:42:30 +0000

I know the ClarkConnect folks are releasing an Asterisk version now, will you have a build that can incorporate your version with CC?

By: VOIPer

VOIPer — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:34:32 +0000

Excellent stuff! Thanks in advance for all the hard work you guys will put into it

By: anonymoustroll

anonymoustroll — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:01:56 +0000

Why not make it Ubuntu based? …they make a server distro you know.

I’ve had lots of problems with CentOS based VOIP distros running on stuff that should have been easily supported x86 hardware (via mini-itx boards in particular)

[WM: A lot of work has gone into an Ubutu distro, but none have worked. So we’re sticking with CentOS 5.]