Re: [Astlinux-users] Using FreePBX conf files

[Kristian K. <kri...@gm...>]

On 5/23/07, Bryce Chidester <br...@rh...> wrote:
>
>  You're preaching to the choir Kris - we ship hundreds of the Rhino CEROS
> systems pre-loaded with Trixbox. We actually have our own CD with kickstarts
> etc that we ship as a restore CD which makes the entire process completely
> hands-off. Even with 3 reboots, the process is about 10 minutes and we have
> rackfulls of systems continuously installing as part of the burn-in and
> testing process (I call it "How fast can you wear out a drive").
>
>  Like others have said canuck, we're just focusing on FreePBX in this
> discussion. You can, in fact, fit TB on a 2GB CF card, if you're feeling
> "lucky", but of course you lose everything that makes a nice, thin, custom
> distro such as Astlinux. Two minutes to boot TB vs 30s for Astlinux... I'll
> take Astlinux. (Not to mention Astlinux is still fully community-driven,
> which is a very nice thing).
>  Regards,
> Bryce Chidester
> Rhino Equipment Corp.
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Bryce,

  Trixbox certainly has it's time and place.  I don't think that I
have ever publicly addressed this but I might as well...

  Trixbox and AstLinux have very different design goals.  AstLinux is
not really designed to be a complete out of the box beginner's PBX
system.  It is meant to be a rock solid, bare bones toolkit for making
an appliance, PBX, etc.

  For instance - Matt Riddell has done a great job with the
VentureVoip appliance.  They took the functionality that AstLinux had,
added provisioning, hardware, and a web gui (among many other things
I'm sure) and ended up with a VERY nice finished product.  Well done
guys!

  Bryce - you mention "getting" trixbox to install to a 2GB CF card.
How well does that run on ordinary hardware?  Have you ever tested it
on something like a Soekris?  I'm not sure that it would even install,
but it would probably be pretty interesting to see how it would run.


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Kristian Kielhofner