"Asterisk: The Future of Telephony" aka the "Starfish Book" (becuase of the starfish on the cover) is a great place to start...
O'Reilly and the authors have been kind enough to make the entire book freely available online: http://www.asteriskdocs.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=11 Have fun... And welcome to Asterisk!! :-) -Larry On 8/16/07, Barry L. Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bill Andersen wrote: > [snip] > > Would I be better off starting with: > > > > a) Plain old asterisk from asterisk.org? > > (tutorial suggestions?) > > > > b) AsteriskNow > > > > c) Trixbox (not Pro) > > > > d) other suggestions. > > > > Hi Bill. > > My first deployment was TrixBox. The two I am currently working on are > "Plain Old Asterisk". Keep in mind that I'm an old Linux jock, and a > 30-year veteran of programming, so the only thing I had to learn was > Asterisk. If you pick that route, you'll need to learn Linux (or BSD, > or whatever you're going to us as an OS) as well as Asterisk. > > As far as tutorials, just pick up a copy of "Asterisk: The Future of > Telephony." Most of the "howto" for compilation is there, albeit > somewhat dated until the newer version of the book hits the press. > > I will say that I don't ever intend on using a GUI again. I'm so used > to text files for configuration of everything else I use Linux for that > the manual configuration seems so much more natural. > > That's my two cents. > > Barry > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFGxJ4CCFu3bIiwtTARAvMzAJ4xIgA+PAzcS2Jrx5EUzyKo6JFqswCgmith > tr93sIPre5AjI1EMacaLtas= > =mW67 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
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