[VoIP] Linux Problem

[Paul Wills]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Greg Blakely" <greg at vyger.net>
To: "Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches" <voip at ckts.info>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: [VoIP] Linux Problem

>
> All that said, I agree with John 100% about any of the X GUIs available,
> including Gnome.  They are just not very intuitive, and they tend to
> slow down a decent server.  In the very beginnings of our CNET, it was
> discovered that, in order to have a smooth-running Asterisk server, the
> GUI should be taken out of the startup sequence.
>
> What works for me is SSHing in to a Linux shell when I need to
> administer Asterisk.  For desktop applications, I use Windows XP.
>

Agreed but it's nice to have a browser to get to a website without going 
upstairs to the Windows machine.  Once in a while, I have to look something 
up but most of the time, the GUI is shut off.  One thing for sure, it's no 
speed demon!  (or is that daemon?)

Firefox seems to be working sufficiently well now.

PDW