Hey all, I've been doing a lot of playing, and a lot of reading, and it seems people are split as to whereas if they're running their favorite Linux distro and asterisk or Trixbox. I'm getting closer to really looking at a production environment and I'm just looking for any opinions. I'm really enjoying learning linux and asterisk, so initial "ease of use" isn't really a huge benefit to me. In the end stability and upgradeability will be my main concerns. Thanks in advance, Phil -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20061216/426afa10/attachment.htm
On 12/16/06, Phil Finkler <PhilF@iqconsultinginc.com> wrote:> > Hey all, > > I've been doing a lot of playing, and a lot of reading, and it seems > people are split as to whereas if they're running their favorite Linux > distro and asterisk or Trixbox. I'm getting closer to really looking at a > production environment and I'm just looking for any opinions. I'm really > enjoying learning linux and asterisk, so initial "ease of use" isn't really > a huge benefit to me. In the end stability and upgradeability will be my > main concerns. > > Thanks in advance, > > Phil >What is your application? home, small office, large office?? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20061216/481ad718/attachment.htm
> I've been doing a lot of playing, and a lot of reading, and it seems people > are split as to whereas if they're running their favorite Linux distro and > asterisk or Trixbox. I'm getting closer to really looking at a production > environment and I'm just looking for any opinions. I'm really enjoying > learning linux and asterisk, so initial "ease of use" isn't really a huge > benefit to me. In the end stability and upgradeability will be my main > concerns.My favorite for stability and upgradeability is CentOS + Asterisk plain install As a proof, here is what I get on my home PBX [root@panoramix root]# uptime 10:04:01 up 250 days, 19:53, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 I think that speaks for itself :c) I'm not saying Trixbox is not stable (since it is based on CentOS), but it is not as customizable as a plain install (IMHO) YMMV
On Saturday 16 December 2006 5:14 am, Phil Finkler wrote:> Hey all, > > > > I've been doing a lot of playing, and a lot of reading, and it seems > people are split as to whereas if they're running their favorite Linux > distro and asterisk or Trixbox. I'm getting closer to really looking at > a production environment and I'm just looking for any opinions. I'm > really enjoying learning linux and asterisk, so initial "ease of use" > isn't really a huge benefit to me. In the end stability and > upgradeability will be my main concerns. > >Trixbox is HUGE. If you need all the bells and whistles- a MySQL backend, the CentOS operating system, AMP, SugarCRM, Festival, monitoring consoles, everything pointy-clicky, and on and on and on, then Trixbox is for you. It has some disadvantages. There is not a clear correlation between the graphical admin tools and the underlying text configuration files, so debugging problems is harder, and you have to know two ways of doing things. The documentation sucks rocks- there isn't any to speak of. When Asterisk@Home changed the name to Trixbox, they moved to a new web site and didn't bring any of the help docs or forums with them. There is a book you can buy, 'Trixbox Made Easy'. I think it's better to learn plain-vanilla Asterisk first. Then if you move on to some other implementation you'll be better prepared to understand what it's doing. You might give AstLinux a try. It's a complete Linux distribution + Asterisk 1.2.-something, but tiny, about 40 megabytes. No wasted bits. It has a nicely-organized Web GUI for those who like such. You can switch between the Web interface and editing the config files directly without getting in trouble. It runs on single-board computers and ordinary old PCs. It's my current fave, though I'm also running Asterisk 1.4/CentOS on a test box. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carla Schroder Linux geek and random computer tamer check out my Linux Cookbook! http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxckbk/ best book for sysadmins and power users ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
f6hqz-m@hamwlan.net
2006-Dec-17 02:08 UTC
[asterisk-users] Linux distro + Asterisk or Trixbox?
Hi men, Have a look at : www.asterisknow.org This will be THE standard ! Best Regards, Francois BERGERET, France.
Andrew Joakimsen
2006-Dec-17 23:47 UTC
[asterisk-users] Linux distro + Asterisk or Trixbox?
I've used Asterisk on a bunch of RH 7.3 machines which were then replaced by RHEL 4. It is very stable, my biggest compliant is that RHEL(or CentOS, which is a direct rip-off) uses outdated packages (Linux 2.4.x, Apache 1, Mysql 4, php 4, etc) and Linux 2.4.x requires certain USB hardware to use zaptel timing without a hardware card, so we have a bunch of these dual xeon machines with the wrong USB hardware and can only run MeetMe on the one with the t1 cards. So we're moving everything over to SuSE Linux, has more up-to-date packages, still very stable and generally runs asterisk very well. On 12/16/06, Phil Finkler <PhilF@iqconsultinginc.com> wrote:> > Hey all, > > > > I've been doing a lot of playing, and a lot of reading, and it seems > people are split as to whereas if they're running their favorite Linux > distro and asterisk or Trixbox. I'm getting closer to really looking at a > production environment and I'm just looking for any opinions. I'm really > enjoying learning linux and asterisk, so initial "ease of use" isn't really > a huge benefit to me. In the end stability and upgradeability will be my > main concerns. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Phil > > > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20061217/755951e4/attachment.htm