kenn10
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Just for giggles today, I downloaded the latest (1.5) ISO of AsteriskNow. I must admit they've made great strides over the original incarnations. It has FreePBX for the GUI now and included Centos 5.3 for the operating system on the ISO.
I was installing on a Dell SC440 machine with dual disk drives. The install gave me the option for software RAID. It installed Asterisk 1.4.24 but I decided I'd got for 1.6.0.3 instead. I must admit it was quite easy to switch using Yum remove and Yum install to do it. The system was up and running with no errors with FreePBX 2.6 Beta in no time at all. I thought this might be the opportunity to see if chan_mobile works now but was grossly dissappointed with that. Otherwise, the Asterisk 1.6 and Dhadi were there and worked as expected for my minimal testing with SIP and my Digium 4-port FXS card. FreePBX presented absolutely no issues.
What I did not like was that there was no source code loaded onto the box and directories were not where I'm used to them being from PIAF. I downloaded the current Asterisk-Addons-1.6.0.3 but it would not compile cleanly when I tried to get chan_mobile working.
It was a complete system but lacked the "total" package that you get with PIAF. No preconfigured firewall, no Fail2Ban, no handy scripts for passwords, etc. It looks like you'd be beholden Digium's Yum repository when you want to upgrade or change things, but that was not a big deal in my case.
So once we see some new upgrade scripts in PIAF for the Asterisk 1.6 branches, PIAF will still maintain its "top dog" position as the most complete (and in my opinion, the best) distro. Nonetheless, its encouraging to see the Digium mother ship doing something progressive as far as a packaged ISO is concerned.
Just my 2 cents worth.
I was installing on a Dell SC440 machine with dual disk drives. The install gave me the option for software RAID. It installed Asterisk 1.4.24 but I decided I'd got for 1.6.0.3 instead. I must admit it was quite easy to switch using Yum remove and Yum install to do it. The system was up and running with no errors with FreePBX 2.6 Beta in no time at all. I thought this might be the opportunity to see if chan_mobile works now but was grossly dissappointed with that. Otherwise, the Asterisk 1.6 and Dhadi were there and worked as expected for my minimal testing with SIP and my Digium 4-port FXS card. FreePBX presented absolutely no issues.
What I did not like was that there was no source code loaded onto the box and directories were not where I'm used to them being from PIAF. I downloaded the current Asterisk-Addons-1.6.0.3 but it would not compile cleanly when I tried to get chan_mobile working.
It was a complete system but lacked the "total" package that you get with PIAF. No preconfigured firewall, no Fail2Ban, no handy scripts for passwords, etc. It looks like you'd be beholden Digium's Yum repository when you want to upgrade or change things, but that was not a big deal in my case.
So once we see some new upgrade scripts in PIAF for the Asterisk 1.6 branches, PIAF will still maintain its "top dog" position as the most complete (and in my opinion, the best) distro. Nonetheless, its encouraging to see the Digium mother ship doing something progressive as far as a packaged ISO is concerned.
Just my 2 cents worth.
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