<div>"Asterisk: The Future of Telephony" aka the "Starfish Book" (becuase of the starfish on the cover) is a great place to start... </div>
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<div>O'Reilly and the authors have been kind enough to make the entire book freely available online: </div>
<div><a href="http://www.asteriskdocs.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=11">http://www.asteriskdocs.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=11</a></div>
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<div>Have fun... And welcome to Asterisk!! </div>
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<div>:-)</div>
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<div>-Larry<br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Barry L. Kline</b> <<a href="mailto:blkline@attglobal.net">blkline@attglobal.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><br>Bill Andersen wrote:<br>[snip]<br>> Would I be better off starting with:
<br>><br>> a) Plain old asterisk from <a href="http://asterisk.org">asterisk.org</a>?<br>> (tutorial suggestions?)<br>><br>> b) AsteriskNow<br>><br>> c) Trixbox (not Pro)<br>><br>> d) other suggestions.
<br>><br><br>Hi Bill.<br><br>My first deployment was TrixBox. The two I am currently working on are<br>"Plain Old Asterisk". Keep in mind that I'm an old Linux jock, and a<br>30-year veteran of programming, so the only thing I had to learn was
<br>Asterisk. If you pick that route, you'll need to learn Linux (or BSD,<br>or whatever you're going to us as an OS) as well as Asterisk.<br><br>As far as tutorials, just pick up a copy of "Asterisk: The Future of
<br>Telephony." Most of the "howto" for compilation is there, albeit<br>somewhat dated until the newer version of the book hits the press.<br><br>I will say that I don't ever intend on using a GUI again. I'm so used
<br>to text files for configuration of everything else I use Linux for that<br>the manual configuration seems so much more natural.<br><br>That's my two cents.<br><br>Barry<br>-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br>Version: GnuPG
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