Hello, I'm following the thread "Asterisk@Now vs Trixbox", and I have a similar question: if someone is going to install Asterisk, FreePBX and A2Billing, should you advice him/her to use Trixbox ... or a custom "step by step" installation on a distribution of his/her choice? Thanks Stefano
Hi, I'd recommend if you need quick and easy setup - use Asterisk@Now or Trixbox or something like this, and if you need customized setup and want to understand system in detail - use your favorite distribution and setup * from sources. I'm prefer Slackware for any * installation, but your coise on your own. -- Sincerely, Elman Efendiyev PROTECH INC. -----Original Message----- From: asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces@lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Stefano Corsi Sent: Monday, 12 February, 2007 18:42 To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion Subject: [asterisk-users] Trixbox vs. Custom install Hello, I'm following the thread "Asterisk@Now vs Trixbox", and I have a similar question: if someone is going to install Asterisk, FreePBX and A2Billing, should you advice him/her to use Trixbox ... or a custom "step by step" installation on a distribution of his/her choice? Thanks Stefano _______________________________________________ --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
Stefano Corsi wrote:> Hello, > > I'm following the thread "Asterisk@Now vs Trixbox", and I have a similar > question: if someone is going to install Asterisk, FreePBX and > A2Billing, should you advice him/her to use Trixbox ... or a custom > "step by step" installation on a distribution of his/her choice? >I started by trying out Asterisk@Home. I found that learning Asterisk internals was a bit more challenging trying to read and understand the A@H scripts. Eventually, I ended up writing a Windows GUI of my own to help learn Asterisk. The nice things about GUI's in my opinion is that routine chores such as setting up extensions, dialing extensions, hunt groups, etc. are less likely to contain scripting bugs or typos. The downside from what I gather with many GUI's is that the friendly abstraction that insulates you from the nuts and bolts of scripting and configuration also makes it difficult to customize the dialplan in some cases. Of course, you should take this with a grain of salt since I tried A@H (now TrixBox) for a total of 2 weeks before gutting it. Now, I just use my own GUI for everything from graphical setup to scripting. -- Warm Regards, Lee
Hi Stefano, I am a proponent of the "step-by-step" installation on a complete linux distribution. Like someone said in another posting, the GUIs are nice, but isolate you from the .conf files to the point where customization can be a bit tricky. However, Trixbox w/ FreePBX and A2Billing works out of the box with very little patching or configuration needed. If A2Billing is all he/she anticipates needing to do, FreePBX is a mature and stable and he/she will probably be happy with it. FreePBX is a bit of a chore to install and configure without Trixbox, if you don't have a solid understanding of dependencies, linux security, apache and MySQL. Same with A2Billing. Edward Halman (718) 705-7451 ehalman@myhealthcharts.com ------------------------------ Message: 12 Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:42:15 +0100 From: Stefano Corsi <scorsi@floo.it> Subject: [asterisk-users] Trixbox vs. Custom install To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion <asterisk-users@lists.digium.com> Message-ID: <45CB1BDE00381960@> (added by postmaster@aa012msr.fastwebnet.it) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hello, I'm following the thread "Asterisk@Now vs Trixbox", and I have a similar question: if someone is going to install Asterisk, FreePBX and A2Billing, should you advice him/her to use Trixbox ... or a custom "step by step" installation on a distribution of his/her choice? Thanks Stefano ------------------------------