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Asterisk Open Source PBX 1.0 Release

Posted by michael on from the linux-phone-home dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Today at Astricon (the first Asterisk conference), Mark Spencer announced the release of version 1.0.0 of Asterisk. For those of you that don't know: Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk does voice over IP in three protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware. Asterisk users can be up and running, making phone calls in under an hour using the various guides found at the VoIP Wiki. Connectivity to the PSTN is provided by companies like VoicePulse, Nufone, Gafachi and VoipJet."

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  1. Enjoy your IAXy... by kasparov · · Score: 4, Funny
    Anonymous User...

    (Mark offered to give a free IAXy to the person who got this slashdot story posted) :-)

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  2. Re:ads by ari_j · · Score: 3, Funny

    echo '0.0.0.0 ads.osdn.com' | cat >> /etc/hosts

    Here's the problem with the new generation of Unix users - they think that, just because Unix is a collection of small utilities that can be used to achieve great results, they must utilize as many tools as possible in solving the simplest problems.

    echo '0.0.0.0 ads.osdn.com' >> /etc/hosts

  3. I just had a funny thought.. by Havokmon · · Score: 2, Funny
    As I clicked on the Asterisk link, I imagined a GNU HURD stampeding across the internet to the Asterisk server.

    What have we become?!

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  4. Re:Thanks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's like a PBJ, but XTREME!!!

  5. New Marketing Slogan... by GypC · · Score: 4, Funny
    Asterisk 1, because when it comes to your job, you only have one "ass-to-risk"

    OK, that was bad.

  6. Re:ads by JabberWokky · · Score: 4, Funny
    Actually, they should use:

    printf "%s %s %s\n" $( echo '0.0.0.0 ads.osdn.com' | cat | rev | nl | head -5 | sed 's/Eris/Bob/g' | awk '{ print $2 " " $3 }' | rev | nl ) |cut -c3- >> /etc/hosts

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  7. Re:Asterisk is great! by Havokmon · · Score: 3, Funny
    and one that's just angry monkeys screaming for 20 seconds.

    Oh sorry, I was trying to set the outgoing message, but the kids had just come home from school.

    Thanks, I'll fix that.

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  8. Re:not too far out: email by phone by NinjaPablo · · Score: 2, Funny

    That'd be great. I could call in and hear festival stumble thru all the spam I have. "horse china The president today announced a new policy. Low cost viagra Can you maintain 4 hours episilon romeo episilon charley tango india oscar november?"

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  9. Re:Thanks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ooohhh! *slaps forhead* Well, fuck you very much, but wtf is a PBX?

    WTF does WTF mean?

  10. Re:Screen shots? by bytesmythe · · Score: 2, Funny

    Here's a pic of the system in action.

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  11. Re:Thanks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    thanks, but wtf is a LAN?