Re: [asterisk-users] Which Asterisk version to use?

Eric B. wrote:

site and got to chapter 4 or 5 and decided to take a break.  Which is when I  found AsteriskNow and TriBox and then started wondering if it was really  necessary / worthwhile to figure out all the intricacies of the application  if someones have already created the appliance version of it.  In which  case, I was very confused as to the difference btwn AsteriskNow and TriBox.  Thanks!   

Last week I posed a similar question to the list as a "noob".  Specifically, I was curious why every one was so adverse to GUI implementations.   Like you, I entered the asterisk world quite idealistic and oblivious to what is actually required to create a functional system (still am).  I spent the good part of last week trying to make heads or tails of the AsteriskNOW distro, but finally gave up in favor of a plain jane Debian install with asterisk and wish I would have never wasted so much time trying to figure out how the users.conf  worked.

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[TK]D-Fender - The users.conf is a flaming piece of sh**!
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I actually thought that was a bit harsh when I read it...turns out to be quite accurate.  Long story short, I'm learning to be quite comfortable in the CLI and finding myself more productive in nano (yes..nano) than I was in the GUI.

Good luck!

-jc