[VoIP] Asterisk vs. others

[David Josephson]

>>It'd be valuable to the welcome page on the website to 
>>present new CNETters with the easiest possible setup.
>>
>>It would be a good project for those up to the task to make 
>>an ease-of-installation comparison between the various platforms.
>>
>>Then, what?  The easiest 2 or 3 could have installation 
>>instructions?  
>>
The other applications I mentioned (YATE, Callweaver, SER, etc.) are 
nowhere near as usable as Asterisk, at least not today. There are a 
bunch of precooked Asterisk installations, like Trixbox (formerly 
Asterisk @ Home) but I think that most of us who have played with these 
find them less useful than the bare Asterisk. In short, they have a lot 
of eye candy but not a lot of carrier-grade qualities that we'd 
appreciate more.

There is a bare Asterisk install system called Astlinux that is a good 
place to start if you have really limited hardware, or CentOS plus an 
Asterisk install script if you have a 21st century machine. I think 
supporting one n00b install version would have more likelihood of 
staying current than 2 or 3.

I guess no one here is looking at the non-Asterisk solutions yet. We'll 
wait for them to absorb a few thousand hours of *other people's* time...

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David Josephson