[asterisk-users] Best practices with Asterisk

[Pele Zico]

Im in the process of installing Asterisks for clients and the question i
need answered is "whats best practice for Asterisk".  Should i use trixbox
or freebpx or should i install manually.  Im getting very conversant with
Asterisk dailplan and concepts.  What i am doing currently is looking at
macros written in perl for trixbox and converting them to dailplan
extension language.  

Im doing this so as to increase my learning curve quick. Should i install a
gui, one of the free billing softwares,   sugarcrm.  etc etc 

Thanks