Tried AsteriskNOW 1.2 in VMWare today. I like the AsteriskNOW GUI and approach to configuration file management (i.e. does not make a mess). Imagine lots of users would like to install AsteriskNOW on Soekris or PC Engines ALIX SBC style systems.
It does not seem to have a TFTP server installed by detault (important for Cisco handsets), but this can be added without much difficulty (search the forums for details).
With a flash memory installation mode (e.g. readonly root, logs on ramfs, configuration on rw partition) I would replace my existing AskoziaPBX with AsteriskNOW. However the nice GUI alone is not worth the burden of maintaining another full system (or VM).
If rPath is anything like CentOS 5 then it’s probably only a matter of an init script and some system configuration to make AsteriskNOW run in a flash-friendly way. Not sure if cheap SBC based boxes would cannibalize sales of other Digium products, but this would be a very attractive solution for small/simple configurations
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