Easiest way to install an asterisk system

2007-12-24 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
What is the easiest way to install an Asterisk system? 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

Re: Easiest way to install an asterisk system

2007-12-24 Thread sammy ominsky
On 24/12/2007, at 10:06, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: What is the easiest way to install an Asterisk system? Do you want this system to run physical phones or as a registration server for sip devices? The former is more difficult than the latter. You need hardware! As for the latter,

Re: Easiest way to install an asterisk system

2007-12-24 Thread Michael Tewner
You can have ubuntu running asterisk in less than an hour. I bought a generic-brand compatible modem for $15 on ebay. Installed it and drivers. This gave me one physical line, and as many SIP devices as the computer could handle. On Dec 24, 2007 4:56 AM, sammy ominsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Easiest way to install an asterisk system

2007-12-24 Thread Geoff Shang
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

running 64 bit linux on the desktop

2007-12-24 Thread Tom Rosenfeld
Hi, I recently started working at a new firm that is using CentOS 4.5 64 bit on the desktop. We were having trouble with some standard programs and we just realized that they are related to the 64 vs. 32 bit issues. For example the flash plugin to firefox installed fine, but would not work. The

Re: Easiest way to install an asterisk system

2007-12-24 Thread Ofek Doron [Ofek BIZ]
Hi, Astrisk.org.il is your friend . Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: What is the easiest way to install an Asterisk system? There was a CD that called astrisk now (or something ..) that include astrisk and a web interface to configure it. Assume I have an X86 computer with a blank hard

Re: running 64 bit linux on the desktop

2007-12-24 Thread Yuval Hager
On Monday 24 December 2007, Tom Rosenfeld wrote: Hi, I recently started working at a new firm that is using CentOS 4.5 64 bit on the desktop. We were having trouble with some standard programs and we just realized that they are related to the 64 vs. 32 bit issues. For example the flash

Re: running 64 bit linux on the desktop

2007-12-24 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 10:07:39PM +0200, Tom Rosenfeld wrote: Hi, I recently started working at a new firm that is using CentOS 4.5 64 bit on the desktop. We were having trouble with some standard programs and we just realized that they are related to the 64 vs. 32 bit issues. For

[YBA] NIS vs LDAP

2007-12-24 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Linux-IL members, I am considering setting up a heterogenous work environment with about 100 high-end Linux work stations, 40 MS Windows, and 10 Mac's. The underlying common authentication system will likely be LDAP. Would NIS or Active Directories be more appropriate for this type of