[asterisk-users] Which Asterisk version to use?

[randulo]

Eric,

It's a huge learning curve, but you'll soon see light at ahead even
before you know a lot. Get the book and start playing. You won't be
sorry!

On 9/30/07, Eric B. <ebenze at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> "Jim Canfield" <jcanfield at tshmail.com> wrote in message
> news:46FBEFF0.2080107 at tshmail.com...
>    Eric B. wrote:
>
>  site and got to chapter 4 or 5 and decided to take a break.  Which is when
> I
>  found AsteriskNow and TriBox and then started wondering if it was really
>  necessary / worthwhile to figure out all the intricacies of the application
>  if someones have already created the appliance version of it.  In which
>  case, I was very confused as to the difference btwn AsteriskNow and TriBox.
>
>  Thanks!
>
>
>    Last week I posed a similar question to the list as a "noob".
>    Specifically, I was curious why every one was so adverse to GUI
>    implementations.   Like you, I entered the asterisk world quite
> idealistic
>    and oblivious to what is actually required to create a functional system
>    (still am).  I spent the good part of last week trying to make heads or
>    tails of the AsteriskNOW distro, but finally gave up in favor of a plain
>    jane Debian install with asterisk and wish I would have never wasted so
>    much time trying to figure out how the users.conf  worked.
>
>    <quote>
>    [TK]D-Fender - The users.conf is a flaming piece of sh**!
>    <\quote>
>
>    I actually thought that was a bit harsh when I read it...turns out to be
>    quite accurate.  Long story short, I'm learning to be quite comfortable
> in
>    the CLI and finding myself more productive in nano (yes..nano) than I was
>    in the GUI.
>
>    Good luck!
>
>
> Thanks for the advice everyone.  Will continue reading TFOT and get started!
>
> Eric
>
>
>
>
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