A J Stiles wrote:
On Thursday 01 March 2012, Ralph Green wrote:
Howdy,
I have tried all of these and a few more. PBXinaFlash gave me the
best results, by far. AsteriskNow produced a basic working system. I
could not get any of the others configured to work at all. I should
tell you my restrictions. I was evaluating these distros to see which
one I could use to teach at a local computer group. I wanted to do
very little configuration through the command line,
And *that* is where you were going wrong.
Look, the command line is a fact of life. Microsoft have spent a fortune
telling you that you're not smart enough to use it. You do not have to fall
for that. Are you going to sit back and let them call you stupid?
Think of trying to make yourself understood in a foreign country by pointing
and gesturing. There comes a point where you will actually have expended
*more* effort than if you had just bitten the bullet and learned the language
in the first place.
since my goal was
not just to get a working system, but to have something I could easily
show others how to setup.
Again, this is where the command line excels. Irrespective of how the user of
the computer has set up the GUI -- what icon theme they have selected or how
they have arranged the menus, which GUI tools are present and so forth -- the
command line method will always be the same.
You really aren't doing your students any favours if you are teaching them
blindly to avoid what is basically the most powerful feature of a GNU/Linux
system.
AstLinux is another great one. It has an easy to use GUI, but allows and
requires editing of the Asterisk confs to build a working system without
the drawbacks of the others mentioned
It also runs on small platforms, in 1 Gig ( or less ) of flash, no hard
drive needed, and would allow the student to work with Asterisk without
the overhead of learning Linux
Building a system from scratch and source code is certainly best however
John Novack
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Dog is my Co-pilot
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