Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
What is the easiest way to install an Asterisk system?
There are specific Asterisk Linux distros which you can download and
install. There seem to be a number of choices.
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk+Install+CDROM
The most popular of these seems to be trixbox (http://www.trixbox.org). If
you choose to go this route, you may want to read the following thread
about their colection of usage statistics (though it may be out of date
now).
http://www.trixbox.org/forums/trixbox-forums/open-discussion/trixbox-phones-home
Assume I have an X86 computer with a blank hard drive, a DVD reader
and sufficent Internet access to download whatever is needed.
The computer will not be used for anything else, and probably run
headless, so a GUI, Office Suite, etc is not needed or wanted.
As far as I can tell from a quick glance, most if not all the options
available use a web interface rather than an X11 GUI.
If I use OpenPBX.org, does this change things?
OpenPBX.org is now called Callweaver (http://www.callweaver.org).
A quick google failed to turn up any callweaver install CDs, but this is
not particularly surprising at this stage.
Using Callweaver may widen your choice of hardware, but I don't know much
about this.
Whichever you decide to go with, these programs are complex and if you want
to do anything the slightest bit complex with them, configuring them will
take a bit of time.
Note that I've never used an Asterisk install CD and have only just
installed Callweaver, so I can't speak from experience.
Geoff.
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