Looked at Askozia, but it was not suitable for our application, as we need some specific custom macros

I tried an ALIX board, and wasn't thrilled with it, though it may very well be reliable.
Certainly no moving parts on any computer is a plus

John Novack


Philip Mullis wrote:
You should try askozia on a pcengines board, you can sleep easy at night with those :) I've built customer embedded asterisk boxes with over 2 years uptime, its all in how you build the box. On a hardware note, know that anything you build with commodity hardware and spinning parts has a guaranteed dead usage/date.



On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 5:53 PM, John Novack <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    As an old time telecom professional, I would go even further and
    say I would not base a business model on Asterisk at all,
    especially those built on a PC platform
    There are too many really good telephone systems available for
    most applications that will hang on the wall and just work for the
    next 10-20 years. This is especially so for small business and
    SOHO applications where the business owner wants something that
    just works and isn't interested in tinkering.
    I know many will disagree, and that is fine.
    Just my opinion, from my personal experience in telecom sales and
    service for some 35 years

    John Novack


    Mark Phillips wrote:
Re-purposed thin clients are all well and good but one cannot really base a business model on "I got it from ebay". Sure for a one off home project a $50 thin client is great. I know. My web pages and this list are full of my re-purposing ravings.

Once upon a time Kris did a build for a GumStix device (which I have and love!) and indeed there were sources and howto's for it on his site but are now sadly gone.

AstLinux was once available for an ARM processor by means of cross compiling. Perhaps we could do it again?

    Mark



    On 09/22/2009 01:31 PM, Peter Loron wrote:
    On Sep 22, 2009, at 7:59 AM, John Novack wrote:

    Mark Phillips wrote:
    Anyone tried using a BeagleBoard from digikey?

    http://www.beagleboard.org

    For $150 it's worth a punt!

    Mark

    Isn't that kind of expensive??
    Given the HP thin clients going for a song on eBay. Update them with a
    Transcend larger flash and they run AstLinux well.
    Some even have a PCI slot, though the expansion parts are rare, and
    some have expandable ( beyond 128M ) memory, all have an Ethernet
    port, 4 USB ports, a Serial and VGA, and many have a PS/2 keyboard
    port as well.

    Will AstLinux work with an ARM processor??

    John Novack
    The BeagleBoard looks pretty interesting, but as John said, is spendy
    compared to what you can get elsewhere. Also there is the added
    complication of an ARM-based CPU.

    Over time, I'm sure more linux distributions will have ARM builds are
    first class citizens, especially as the ARM-based netbooks start
    penetrating the market.

    John: which models of the HP thin clients have you had success with?

    -Pete


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