[asterisk-users] Looking for a good lightweight Linux softPhone

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Friday 14 November 2008 09:19:22 Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 02:02:14PM +0000, Gordon Henderson wrote:
> >> I used to use IDEFISK, but since it was taken over/renamed into Zoiper
> >> it's been really hard work - now I'm told that they won't support my
> >> chosen distribution - Debian Etch - the current stable version of Debian
> >> I prefer.
> >
> > Ekiga is a bit nicer for an end-user. Twinkle is probably what you'd
> > want for testing and such.
>
> What I really want is a command-like dialer. Call me a boring old fart,
> but I'm utterly fed-up with the current bloatware out there.
>
> So with the IAX library and some time I might just come up with something.

Technically, you can use Asterisk as a softphone, by using chan_alsa or
another console channel driver.  The interface is nothing if not command-line
oriented.

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Tilghman