Greg:<br>
Can you point me to information that shows how to combine AstLinux and PBXware on 45MB?<br>
Thanks very.<br>
smbPBX<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/1/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Greg Boehnlein</b> <<a href="mailto:damin@nacs.net">damin@nacs.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Paul wrote:<br><br>> On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Greg Boehnlein wrote,<br>><br>> >There are two things that I cannot find a way to customize via the<br>> >xxxx_custom.conf files:<br>><br>> >1. Inbound routing based on analog trunk: If I want to route calls coming
<br>> >in on zap/1 differently than zap/2 I have to modify extensions.conf<br>> >directly (fake AMP out into thinking DID is available).<br>><br>> >2. Override extensions dial plan: If I want to change the behavior of
<br>> >calls to an extension, I have to edit extensions.conf (or<br>> >extensions_additional.conf) directly. Because asterisk sorts extensions in<br>> >a context *before* it sorts included contexts, overrides in
<br>> >extensions_custom.conf have no affect.<br>><br>> Greg,<br><br>Don't attribute these issues to me. These were not posted by me.<br><br>[Deleted]<br><br>> Now look at it from another side. New users. When did you ever see the
<br>> wealth of new users, new pushes and new ideas flowing into Asterisk?<br>><br>> Yes, it is a burden on the wiki's --- but less people fail to get their<br>> first system up with A@H which breeds new life into the entire system. It
<br>> really can be used in a business environment. What stops it???<br><br>Concerns about adding more and more software, the security implications of<br>such and the long term stability of a solution like that.<br><br>
Look at AstLinux. It's 26 megs, runs from flash, and can run on something<br>as small as a Gumstix. As a base OS for building a PBX, everything you<br>could possibly need is available for you.<br><br>Now.. would you like to argue the fact that more packages == more security
<br>holes? Think of it this way: PBXware and Astlinux can coexist in about 45<br>megabytes of storage, running out of a Compact Flash and can be loaded in<br>less than 5 minutes by just about anyone. It is a purpose designed system
<br>that is intentionally tight on footprint but doesn't sacrafice features.<br>It's rock solid, well tested and you get support from commercial entities.<br><br>As opposed to Asterisk @ Home, which requires that you install a full
<br>Centos install at (350+ megs) PLUS a development environment. I don't know<br>about you, but I tend not to leave GCC and development libraries on<br>production systems for my customers. Being that Asterisk has to be<br>
re-built on every platform that it is installed on would be cause for<br>concern for me.<br><br>> Please enlighten me where the combination of Cent OS 3.5, AMP, FOP,<br>> Asterisk, Sugar and all required modules to have a full system working, slow
<br>> down Asterisk or cause a failure in a business environment.<br><br>Where those features aren't required (90% of the installs I do) they are<br>just wasted space and a ton of additional components that have to be<br>
managed for security and updates over the long-haul.<br><br>> The only problem is the new beta. They based their new 2.0 beta on Cent 4<br>> and too many changes / upgrades were introduced at once (mysql, phpmyadmin)
<br>> as we all have done in the past.<br><br>Look.. I'm all in support of what the Asterisk At Home project is doing,<br>and I encourage it. I just have a problem with people reccomending it to<br>commercial users. Asterisk At Home is not something that I would even
<br>dream of deploying in a commercial environment (yet.. that may change as<br>it matures). Just because you CAN do something it doesn't make it the<br>right decision.<br><br>--<br> Vice President of N2Net, a New Age Consulting Service, Inc. Company
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