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Incredible VMware Deal: Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro Free for Personal Use

Incredible VMware Deal: Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro Free for Personal Use

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

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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 ›

5 Minute PBX With Any Virtual Machine

5 Minute PBX With Any Virtual Machine

Wednesday, January 24, 2024

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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 ›

Deploying a Free Turnkey Phone System

Deploying a Free Turnkey Phone System

Sunday, December 31, 2023

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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 ›

Virtualization Trifecta: $500 Buys a Perfect Hosting Platform

Virtualization Trifecta: $500 Buys a Perfect Hosting Platform

Monday, October 2, 2023

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We’ve been raving about Zorin OS 16 last month as the best desktop operating system available. And today we combine it with a $500 MiniPC to provide not one, but three, virtualization platforms with a single machine. You get LXC Linux Containers, VirtualBox, and the Windows 11 WSL platform all rolled into one dual-boot desktop PC. On the Linux side with Zorin OS 16, you can run multiple LXC containers (shown above) and VirtualBox virtual machines simultaneously. And on the… Read More ›

Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Compromise All FreePBX Systems

Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Compromise All FreePBX Systems

Sunday, September 17, 2023

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If you’re a user of Asterisk® and FreePBX®, the DEFCON 31 Conference in Las Vegas did not disappoint this year. It exposed not one but three critical, unpatched vulnerabilities in affected FreePBX-based platforms that can compromise your servers in under a minute. I would hasten to add that all of these vulnerabilities were disclosed to Sangoma® months ago and remain unaddressed for months. What this meant was a hacker could easily get administrator privileges on your server with a blank… Read More ›

Introducing Incredible PBX 2027 for LXC Linux Containers

Introducing Incredible PBX 2027 for LXC Linux Containers

Monday, September 11, 2023

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We introduced Zorin OS in our recent review of the latest Acer Aspire 5 notebook PC. If you’ve never heard of Zorin, it’s probably the best desktop operating system available. While it is Linux-based, it can look like any desktop you’re already familiar with including Windows 11 and even a Mac if you spring for the $39 Pro version. It can be installed on as many PCs as you personally own, and Zorin Pro provides an incredible assortment of apps… Read More ›

VirtualBox Wonder: It's Incredible PBX 2027-D for Debian 11

VirtualBox Wonder: It’s Incredible PBX 2027-D for Debian 11

Monday, September 4, 2023

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If you’re new to the VoIP world and want to kick the tires to see what you’re missing, then today’s one minute setup is for you. You can purchase a $1 a month phone number in your choice of area codes from CallCentric. Setup instructions here. If you decide VoIP is not for you, you don’t have to buy anything else ever. And you can use almost any desktop computer you already own to bring up the VirtualBox® edition of… Read More ›

Interconnecting Incredible PBX Servers with PJsip

Interconnecting Incredible PBX Servers with PJsip

Tuesday, May 16, 2023

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Much has been made of the lack of multi-tenant functionality with Asterisk® and FreePBX®. Today we’ll show you how to interconnect as many Asterisk servers as you like and make transparent calls between all of them at zero cost. Setup time is under 5 minutes per server. When you couple PBXs with distributed infrastructure and inexpensive cloud servers costing $25 or less a year and on-premise virtual machine platforms including Proxmox, VMware ESXi, VirtualBox, Windows 11 WSL, and Mac UTM,… Read More ›

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