I don't know what has happened to Astlinux. While I appreciate that Astlinux is a free Open Source offering I can't help but feel it has gone from something that was installable by the average Linux user to something that only an expert can now install.
I don't have the understanding to checkout the source and compile it and then install it on my hardware. I have been waiting on this list for a couple of years now in the hope that there would be a new release with up-to-date asterisk on it that I could use, but nothing has been released. It seems I have the choice of running with an old very outdated system or learning how to compile one for myself. Astlinux seems to be going the way of OSCommerce under continuous development but no releases for the regular user. It is really sad, and I'm sure I will get flamed by people saying it is open source and that if I don't like it that is just too bad. But every other open software I use, Fedora, Apache, Drupal Open Ofiice etc all have regular packaged releases that can be easily installed by the average user making them so much more accessible. I like Astlinux and appreciate the effort put into it but I just wish it was more accessible to me. So I decided to just get a 8GB flash card and install a normal linux distro and Asterisk from an rpm. I wish you every success with Astlinux but if you want to grow the user base a lot more thought needs to go into making it more accessible with regular releases rather then continuous feature creep. Darren ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
