A simple IMAGE hosted on their server would indicate such a thing, to me
that cinched it for me.. no more TB.
I was glad I dropped TB long before that came out.
I tried Elastix but didn't like the changes they interface made to
FreePBX/etc.
I suppose I could do with it like I did with AdminsParadise.
Once you upgrade everything their custom interface goes away.
I only use such distributions to save time anyway.
Hopefully PBX in a flash won't get corrupted by corporate influences like TB
was.
JD
Geek Girl wrote:
Yes despite the reasurances they still will not say what EXACLY is sent to
their servers and the mechanism is still in tact...The need it for "funding"
so that they can prove that trixbox CE is actually being deployed...
However you can disable the chron job AFTER the initial install and initial
"phone home"
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 8:33 PM
Subject: Re: Asterisk (geek girl)
Quoting Geek Girl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Well the Phoenix Asterisk Users Group is going to be organizing. I do
know
this first hand. =-)
I don't supposed you would care to expand on this?
Alas AdminsParadise is officialy a dead project.
Elastix has hylafax bundeled in thier distro...
The biggest problem right now with trixbox is that there are 4 people
that
work on it...2 developers and a sales guy and a Package dude..Oh and dont
get me started on the fact that your trixbox has a cron job that sends
your
data to trixbox servers...this was a HUGE fiasco about a month
back....This
was previously unreleased info to the community. Fonality has put all of
their money and energy in trixbox PRO..(which is a peice of [EMAIL PROTECTED])
You can compile on the back end...HA but if they do not support the card
you
cannot configure it in the GUI....and void any waranty bla bla bla.....
The phone home fiasco wasn't the worst of it, they had a mechanism that
would
have allowed Fonality to download files and/or run arbitrary commands as
root.
Despite reassurances and disclaimers from Fonality in their public forums,
I
downloaded PBX in a Flash the same night I read that thread, and I'm not
going back.
If anyone cares, unlikely as that is, the thread starts here:
http://www.trixbox.org/forums/trixbox-forums/open-discussion/trixbox-phones-home
The ironic thing was, I was only reading the forums after a Trixbox update
broke
my config.
TJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "JD Austin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 1:13 AM
Subject: Re: Asterisk (geek girl)
I used trixbox until Fonality took them over.
The problem with trixbox and it's predecessor [EMAIL PROTECTED] was that
releases were seldom released without major issues.
I spent more time fixing delivered bugs than anything else.
The upside of that is that I learned a lot about asterisk and freepbx.
I got used to immediately upgrading every core component right after
install.
Now days I don't use Trixbox at all.
I've tried several other distributions and for a time liked
adminsparadise because it bundled hylafax/avantfax.
They stopped updating so I started updating it myself; now their site
is
gone :(
I've been using PBX In A flash since it existed and of all the distros
it's been the most stable out of the box.
If it had hylafax/avantfax bundled and oslec it would be perfect.
End point manager was nice though pbxinaflash has command line tools to
set up
snom, aastra, grandstream, polycom, cisco, and linksys.. I don't know
how well they work though.
Anyone know where/when they'll have a Phoenix Asterisk User Group
meeting? It's been 'organizing' for about a year ;)
JD
Geek Girl wrote:
I would like to clarify....trixbox is a great system but the package
manager
sometimes has very broken things onit. Or you are forced into having
the
versions of asterisk and zaptel that trixbox wants to release etc. It
is
a
great system if you want a system that you dont change or update
often.
PBX
in a flash builds a generic CentOS base and then runs scripts to build
asterisk/zaptel and freePBX (the web GUI) and still has everything but
the
end point manager. My last comment was a bit calus so I felt the need
to
clarify a bit...=-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geek Girl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Main PLUG discussion list"
<plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: Adterisk (geek girl)
That depends lol. If you want a system that is controlled by a
package
manager and that most of the time is screwed up go with trixbox...
If you want something that has tons of community support and that you
can
compile with from source and that is still using a CentOS5 base I
would
go
with PBX in a flash....
The only real thing that trixbox has going for it really is the
endpoint
manager...
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