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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. Asterisk? Linux? I'm so confused! by ackthpt · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    <sarcasm>
    I was looking for Asterix and Obelix related articles and collectibles and ended up with a house full of computer communications equipment. This isn't what I expected and feel terribly misled! It's an error that could have happened to anybody and Les Éditions Albert René need leap into action and fight the confusing of things like Asterisk and Linux with their property, lest many others be confused by the similarities as I was. Oh, woe! I wonder if it's too late to cancel my plane ticket and hotel reservations for Astercon.

    And Wiki could be confused with the LucasFilm character Wicket W. Warrick and VoIP, well, that should close enough to Poit to be a violation of Warner Bros. character Pinky... oh, will no one save us from such confusion!
    </sarcasm>

    For reference, please see this and this

    --

    A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
  2. ads by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    can we change the slashdot ads, i keep seeing this guy flex his muscles, getting annoying after a while.

  3. WHoop! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP BItches!

  4. viva la asterisk by mogorman · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    second post

  5. More "related links weirdness" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Anyone who has thought that they'd like to own "The Internet" should check out the best deals under "related links". I might give it a look - the one I got last year is getting out of date. Which version are we up to now?

  6. HaHA! read in!: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I sent this to their webmaster:

    I find it somewhat humorous that on this page:

    http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/events/security.m spx

    the photo you use is that of a Macintosh PowerBook G4 15" (with the Apple logo on the back of the screen Photoshop-ed out), on a page about security summits and programs. While I don't want to get into a pissing contest about which OS is more secure, it's mildly humorous to find a Mac being used to advertise Microsoft's security, even if it is subtle.

    Respectfully,

    Andy Ringsmuth

    I'll try and keep an eye on it and see if they decide to change the photo.....

    http://www.macslash.org/

    http://macslash.org/~andyring/

  7. broadvoice omitted by alatesystems · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Don't forget Broadvoice. It works too and is really cheap.

    Chris

  8. Re:I just had a funny thought.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As I clicked on the Asterisk link, I imagined a GNU HURD stampeding across the internet to the Asterisk server.

    Can you elaborate on that?