[asterisk-users] Is AsteriskNow and AsteriskGUI download and installation free?

[Russell Bryant]

bilal ghayyad wrote:
> Can I download and install AsteriskNow or AsteriskGUI
> free or there are a kind of charges calculated based
> on somethings?

Yes, it is completely free.

> Actually, I did not start with GUI but I started with
> .conf file, but till now I do not know at what kind of
> configuration level I have to go for .conf files as
> GUI will not help me?
> 
> For example: The dialingplan senario including
> voicemail, macro and playingfiles and collecting
> digits, all of these can be fone in AsteriskGUI? If
> yes, so what kind of configuration can not be done in
> AsteriskGUI and I have to go for .conf? (Except the
> AGI ofcourse ;) -

With the Asterisk-GUI, it is actually very easy to use a combination of the GUI
as well as the configuration files.  The GUI even has a .conf file editor built
in to it so that you can make those changes when you need to.

-- 
Russell Bryant
Senior Software Engineer
Open Source Team Lead
Digium, Inc.