Darren, I'll post some comments inline, but do want to apologize for the long delay between official releases.
Darren Grant wrote: > I don't know what has happened to Astlinux. > > While I appreciate that Astlinux is a free Open Source offering I can't help > but feel it has gone from something that was installable by the average > Linux user to something that only an expert can now install. > > I don't have the understanding to checkout the source and compile it and > then install it on my hardware. I have been waiting on this list for a > couple of years now in the hope that there would be a new release with > up-to-date asterisk on it that I could use, but nothing has been released. > It seems I have the choice of running with an old very outdated system or > learning how to compile one for myself. The last release of Astlinux is 0.4.8 which was done in 2007. Additionally, while we've been finalizing the next release, I've been making images available on my website at http://www.djhsolutions.com/astlinux > Astlinux seems to be going the way of OSCommerce under continuous > development but no releases for the regular user. I'm sorry you feel that way. We really did not intend for there to be a very long delay between releases. On one hand, it has brought several people into the development mix who can contribute to the project. This should make it easier for us to stay on top of releases in the future. The 0.6 release which will be out very very shortly (possibly even this week) will feature the latest version of Asterisk, several security updates and a brand new gui which is very easy to use. > It is really sad, and I'm sure I will get flamed by people saying it is open > source and that if I don't like it that is just too bad. But every other > open software I use, Fedora, Apache, Drupal Open Ofiice etc all have regular > packaged releases that can be easily installed by the average user making > them so much more accessible. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. > I like Astlinux and appreciate the effort put into it but I just wish it was > more accessible to me. So I decided to just get a 8GB flash card and install > a normal linux distro and Asterisk from an rpm. > > I wish you every success with Astlinux but if you want to grow the user base > a lot more thought needs to go into making it more accessible with regular > releases rather then continuous feature creep. There has been some feature creep, but the biggest for the delays are just the available time for the developers. By adding the new contributors, that should be better in the future. Right now, Kristian is the only one who can do the branching and official releases. We are working to improve this. After 0.6 is branched and a 0.6.0 release is generated, we will be much quicker to release official images when security issues or bugs are found in Asterisk or any of the other major pieces of software in the distro. We've basically frozen trunk right now for new features. There is one open issue which is really with the build environment, not with the end resulting image. Once that package has been updated/fixed to resolve someone's preferences, we will be ready to branch 0.6 and create the 0.6.0 tag and images. I'm not going to beg you to stay, but if you can hang tight for another week, we should be able to provide you with stable 0.6 images which will far exceed anything you've seen with the other official release to date (0.4.8). Darrick ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
