[asterisk-users] Small PC to build and run Asterisk

[Kyle Kienapfel]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Jeff LaCoursiere <jeff at sunfone.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, Randy R wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Jeff LaCoursiere <jeff at sunfone.com>
>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> pretty much giving up on Skype for Asterisk (and Skype for SIP) now
>>>> that I realize that they'll be charging a monthly fee that is
>>>> disproportionately high compared to my need to let Skype users call
>>>> us. We'll know the pricing in Q4 of 2010, but it looks to be about
>>>> $15/month for one user. $5 for the channel and $10 for Skype Manager.
>>>> Maybe something for each name, too?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I may have missed this part of the thread, but why giving up on SfA?  I
>>> was just getting ready to start playing with that myself.
>>
>> Monthly fees as I mentioned above. In addition to the binary, youneed
>> to pay for Skype Manager and each seat on that (name) - at least that
>> is my understand of their page.
>>
>
> Ack!  I thought SfA was a one time charge, like their G.729 license.
>
> j
> --

http://store.digium.com/productview.php?product_code=1SFA0001
I just see a $66 price for SfA, no mention of a subscription anywhere,
the monthly fees are just for SfS. Personally I'm holding out for some
wideband love before I plunk down for SfA.

For embedded systems, I plan to try running asterisk off of an old AMD
Geode based thin client, It's got debian but I've replaced /sbin/init
with a link to busybox and I have a script that does the bare minimum
to get operational and have syslog log to a tmpfs.