asterisk users - Jan 2007 - On what distribution is www.asterisknow.com based on ?

Hello Asteriskies,

Has someone tried www.asterisknow.com ?

What is the package manager used? And what is the added value compared
to the well maintained debian based asterisk ?

Thanks,


-- 
Cheers,
Maxim Veksler

"Free as in Freedom" - Do u GNU ?

> What is the package manager used? And what is the added value compared
> to the well maintained debian based asterisk ?
Hi Maxim,
AsteriskNOW is built on top of the R-Path linux distribution which
uses conary as the package manager.  There is no difference between
the version of Asterisk included with AsteriskNOW and the source code
obtainable from asterisk.org.  It is meant for those who do not wish
to or know how to administer their own linux server.

William

On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 17:33 +0200, Maxim Veksler wrote:
> Hello Asteriskies,
> 
> Has someone tried www.asterisknow.com ?
> 
> What is the package manager used? 

I haven't tested it fully, but from first look it seems like a
Fedora/RHEL/CentOS derivative - it uses the anaconda installer, and I
think it uses yum over RPM as the package manager.

> And what is the added value compared
> to the well maintained debian based asterisk ?

As well maintained the "debian based asterisk" is, AsteriskNOW is
maintained by Digium itself. I would think that that counts for
something. In addition, AsteriskNOW attempts to delivery an
out-of-the-box usable Asterisk PBX, which isn't what the debian packages
Asterisk is doing. If you want a simple straight forward install that
gives you an easy to use Asterisk box with little other software
involved, then you get AsteriskNOW. If you want a flexible server that
can do a lot of other things, then you probably want to use something
else - like Debian.

--
Oded Arbel
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I'm tempted to rebuild my asterisk network with AsteriskNow ----- my
question is, can you ADD anything to it?  i.e. cdr_mysql logging?  I thought
I saw it didn't have that

And how does it handle the hardware?  I don't use digium cards in all of my
servers because of country issues (Junghanns in Germany, Sangoma in UK, etc)

If it's expandable through usual package addons etc, then it would seem
there is alot of added value because of the increased EASE of administration
over your well-maintained debian box ........

Thoughts?

--
Chris


"Maxim Veksler" <hq4ever@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello Asteriskies,
>
> Has someone tried www.asterisknow.com ?
>
> What is the package manager used? And what is the added value compared
> to the well maintained debian based asterisk ?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Maxim Veksler
>
> "Free as in Freedom" - Do u GNU ?
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