On Apr 3, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 10:43:08AM -0700, John Todd wrote: >> >> I just ran across these guys - looks very interesting: >> >> http://xelatec.com/xippr/install >> >> They distribute a self-installing ISO with Asterisk, FreePBX, and >> some >> pre-built software to do "radio over IP". You'll need to buy the USB >> radio hardware, but it looks really interesting as a pre-built system >> for radio trunking using some of the Asterisk capabilities. There is >> a very narrow but highly interested group of people who use radio >> interfaces for exotic locations such as oil platforms, ships, or >> remote off-grid locations to connect Asterisk systems together for >> long-haul telecommunications access. >> >> Hopefully there will be a speaker this year at Astricon who will be >> going into a very complex and unique system in detail using these >> components; I'll announce if/when they schedule their talk. > > Now, why would they need a separate ISO for that? What extra > software do > they have? > > One change is obvious: chan_usbradio is not build by default. > > The output from cppcheck for it: > [snip]
Couldn't say why they have a separate ISO other than guessing that it is a more painless process for "radio" people who don't really want to mess around with installing things from source. I'm always interested in distributions using Asterisk in any form, even though we here on these lists might consider the differences trivial or possibly even detrimental. This particular case seems to be for encouraging Asterisk with hardware not typically associated with telephony, which makes it additionally interesting. When there are four or five of these distros floating around with usbradio support, I'll start ignoring them. :-) JT --- John Todd email:jt...@digium.com Digium, Inc. | Asterisk Open Source Community Director 445 Jan Davis Drive NW - Huntsville AL 35806 - USA direct: +1-256-428-6083 http://www.digium.com/ _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users