![]() ![]() ![]() I am trying to envision an environment where point to point video is a relevant application. You mention many features that don’t have complete support sets. Is this a small business with a few users driving the show? I have quite a bit of Asterisk in the Enterprise experience and I have found that Enterprise users tend to be more deliberate on feature introductions. I don’t understand your environment, sounds to me like a few users are out of control. That is the only way you are going to integrate all of the features you listed above. Perhaps the FreePBX distro will move to 5.7 soon so I can stop whining.īased on the above criteria you should be installing from the tarball not from and ISO. With a beast like this, I won’t have to worry about resources for years, and I can add any feature my users decide they want without having to push back.ĬentOS 5.7 works fine with the Intel Z8 chipset, BTW. In six months, I’d be looking at HW reqs and migration plans. With all the crap these guys want, an Atom will be barely adequate. But I also wind up with a more painful maintenance model, and no viable excuse for putting off bug fixes like “Hey, I submitted that to launchpad last week. Sure, I get a more robust solution that, should need arise, I can debug/patch on my own. Every package I have to build/debug/maintain adds a layer of complexity that takes time away from other tasks. For Mac, for Windows, for Linux, for Android, and for iOS. My end users want all of the glitter video, clear audio, full recording capability, ACD, and all the custom desktop apps such capabilities imply. I understand that, but a move to VOIP is not just a different Bakelite phone. I think I remember reading that the Spanish Inquisition used CentOS… Coincidence? Keep in mind that my irritation is with CentOS, and not FreePBX. Doh! Now I have extra work, and I’m back to square one with testing. So I built a high-end server for roll-out without first checking how ancient the hardware had to be for CentOS to work. I just completed a proof-of-concept using the FreePBX-CD distro on a VMware virtual machine. So, one has to install CentOS manually (if it’s even possible), and proceed to find or build this millenium’s versions of everything that other distros (Fedora, Ubuntu, etc) include just because “new version” should not be just pretty words.Īs for server GUIs: if running a GUI console might cause resource conflicts, then odds are good that your server can be replaced with a better one from the GoodWill store for < $50. The kernel lacks drivers for current NIC chips and RAID controllers. If you have modern hardware, the FreePBX-on-a-CD ISO is not an option CentOS 5.5 Net-distro won’t install on a late-2010 or newer computer. The biggest reason for using distros other than CentOS is that CentOS is always the 1988 Chevy Cavalier in the room full of brand new Lamborghinis and Ducati crotch rockets. ![]()
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