One quote from the Melb Asterisk users group - Trixbox is great if you like learning things twice.
(once the gui way, then once the right way.....)

PaulH

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shadowym wrote:
Just my opinion and I am no expert. I took the time to crawl first. I installed basic Linux then I installed basic Asterisk. After spending some time crawling with this setup I set up some extensions and made some calls and watched the messages on the CLI while Asterisk did it's thing. After spending some time walking I installed FreePBX and then Trixbox. Now I feel fairly comfortable running FreePBX and making manual changes via the x_custom.conf abilities in FreePBX. It is trying to be all things to all people so bloat is inevitable. So far I have not found any limits that cannot be overcome by manual changes to x_custom.conf files in FreePBX. I suspect if someone just jumps in with both feet and runs Trixbox without learning the basics first they are asking for trouble when they want to get serious about it and run into the inevitable snags. Lot's of people are probably doing it this way and working backwards which is quite possible but is probably a much more difficult way to go about it. My 2 cents.

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    *From:* Mimmus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
    *Sent:* Wednesday, June 28, 2006 6:05 AM
    *To:* 'Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion'
    *Subject:* RE: [Asterisk-Users] Trixbox maunual configuration

    I can confirm this.
    AMP/TrixBox is a wonderful project but if you like to tweak
    something or you became a more experienced user, it will became
    soon as a straitjacket.
    I'm still struggling to clean AMP config files to work with a
    plain Asterisk install.

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        *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
        [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of
        *Jordan Novak
        *Sent:* Wednesday, June 28, 2006 2:24 PM
        *To:* [email protected]
        *Subject:* [Asterisk-Users] Trixbox maunual configuration

        I love the added apps installed with trixbox, ARI, Web-Meetme,
        FOP, and Reports are great. FreePBX on the other hand, is
        nearly impossible to do everything with. Trying to edit the
        configs manually proves impossible due to the excessive use of
        includes and macros. It is kind of like watching someone try
        to bite their own ear off. Has anybody tried to wipe all the
        configs clean and program the switch manually. Will this
        interfere with the other apps. I would wipe out
        extensions.conf, voicemail.conf, IAX.conf SIP.conf queues.conf
        and agents.conf. I do not want to use the FreePBX again after
        this. I am not trying to put down FreePBX, I know a lot of
        people have worked very hard on this. It just over complicates
        things for me.

        Jordan Novak

        Communications Technician

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