[asterisk-biz] Asterisk on Mac OS X...newbie questions

[Peter Beckman]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Rick Dwyer wrote:

>
> On Apr 23, 2009, at 2:01 PM, Rob Lith wrote:
>
>> I don't think you'll get much support or have much luck with Asterisk
>> on a Mac for any production environment. You can't get any of the
>> interface cards to connect to the PSTN going on a Mac. I's a Mac fan
>> and only use them, but our Asterisk systems are on Linux - as 99.9% of
>
> Wow.... that's depressing.
>
> I don't know the first thing about Linux.  Maybe I will try to learn
> or see if other Mac products will do what I need.

  Sure you do!  If you are using OSX, you are using a flavor of Unix (more
  BSD than Linux, but much of the core of the OS is similar), and Linux is
  similar.  Instead of "Software Update" you use "yum" or "apt-get" on the
  command line or install a GUI Tool.  Instead of more hidden complexities
  in OSX, you'll have to install libraries and other such things to get this
  working.

> Can you recommend a Linux version, the hardware to run it on and if
> so, is there a gui interface for the Linux version of Asterisk?

  Ubuntu Server Edition is pretty nice.  GUI interface to Asterisk?
  Trixbox!

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