In response, I went completely minimalist and turned to AstLinux. My primary reason was my only hardware resource was a PC without a hard drive. It cost me 1/2 as much to buy an IDE to Compact Flash adaptor and a 512MB CF card than a new hard drive.
With my dusty old driveless PC now converted to a brand new, yet still dusty * system, I turned to the O'Reilly book, freely downloadable from the net. Working through the book, I learned everything I needed to configure a beginning system.
I now run my home on AstLinux, and regardless of how much I hear about TrixBox being upgradeable, I still see it's a love/hate relationship every time a new release is put forth. I also read a lot about audio quality and AstLinux gets great marks in this respect. I'd recommend it to anybody new to * because it's minimalist, embedded systems approach teaches you so much about the tradeoffs you have to make to maintain a stable system that pleases it's users.
Tom
On 10/14/06, Michael Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I first learned asterisk via [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Then I went to straight asterisk.
>
This seems to be a theme. Getting your feet wet with [EMAIL PROTECTED]/Trixbox is not
a bad way to go, especially if you want to get a functioning system up
and running quickly. After tinkering with Trixbox then go back and do a
plain Asterisk install. You will learn a lot, both about Asterisk and
Trixbox. I've modified the Trixbox install scripts a bit to tailor them
to my needs and ended up with the best of both worlds: a Trixbox
installation that is more than plain vanilla but less than the somewhat
cluttered Trixbox stock install.
-MC
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