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Build Your Own PBX

Posted by Zonk on from the quiet-sunday-project dept.

Kerbo writes "Kerry Garrison has written up a complete guide to building your own PBX with Asterisk@Home to create your own working PBX system. In the article, he shows how you can build a complete, working system for under $20 (assuming you have some old hardware laying around the house)."

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  1. Kerry's Blog is kinda interesting too ... by xmas2003 · · Score: 5, Informative
    Here is Kerry's Blog which is kinda interesting reading too.

    For those with extra hardware to run Astrerix@Home, consider running Folding@Home! ;-)

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  2. For those of you that don't know what PBX is by ballsanya · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those that don't know...Private Branch Exchange[wikipedia.org]

  3. DO NOT BOOT THE Asterisk@Home ISO !!!!!! by the3ngineer · · Score: 5, Informative

    DO NOT BOOT THE Asterisk@Home ISO !!!!!!

    IT WILLE AUTOMATICALLY FROMAT YOUR / PARTITION WITHOUT AKSING YOU A THING.

    OMG this is freekin' Unbelievable!!!

    I've downloaded the Asterisk@Home and like every other n00b around I just booted up from it (no I've not read any warning s or FULL documentation). I bet 98% of people around to the same thing. After the kernel boot and X detection phase it started formatting my / partition. NOT even a ONE question asked. Of course it screwed my system.

    The good part is that I booted from this ISO in a virtual machine (not my real box) and I just lost a default Debian installation (installed on a virtual machine).

    Is this the latest way to distribute bad things on the net? Post an article regarding an open source project that do a lot of good things after it FORMAT your / partition?

    Please if you wanna try Asterisk@Home ISO do it in a blank new virtual machine not your development/home primary box.

    Regards,
    the3ngineer