asterisk users - May 2005 - Upgrading to 1.x from 0.7 on Linux

Hi All...

I have an Asterisk 0.7x server running and have forever now.  I would like 
to upgrade it to 1.0 (or whatever the current version is).  It's running on 
Linux.  I have been told there is now a Debian package for Asterisk on 
Sarge!

I was looking at the Asterisk web site and I noticed that the Wildcard 
X100P cards are deprecated.  I am using two of these cards to interface to 
POTS lines.

If I upgrade to Asterisk 1.x, will I still be able to use these cards?  Are 
there better cards I should look at that will improve quality or offer more 
features?

Thank you very much!

Jim

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 07:43:15PM -0400, Jim Archer
said:
> Hi All...
> 
> I have an Asterisk 0.7x server running and have forever now.  I would like 
> to upgrade it to 1.0 (or whatever the current version is).  It's
running on
> Linux.  I have been told there is now a Debian package for Asterisk on 
> Sarge!
> 
> I was looking at the Asterisk web site and I noticed that the Wildcard 
> X100P cards are deprecated.  I am using two of these cards to interface to 
> POTS lines.
> 
> If I upgrade to Asterisk 1.x, will I still be able to use these cards?  Are
> there better cards I should look at that will improve quality or offer more
> features?
Yes. The old X100P cards still work fine (in the US, in most cases) with
both 1.x and cvs HEAD (the dev branch.)

That said, I'm migrating a similar setup to one X100P and one SPA3000 to
cut the number of interrupts in half and free up a slot.