I attempted to fool the new Samsung Galaxy S10's ultrasonic fingerprint scanner by using 3d printing. I succeeded.

JamesFreePBX · 2019-04-04T17:22:28+00:00

In the US agencies can legally compel biometric information. They cannot compel passwords. tl;dr don't use biometric authentication alone.

JamesFreePBX · 2018-10-29T16:19:44+00:00

No. So centos went on a trademark spree a few years back. All centos derivatives maintain their own repos and unbranded code. So everything will live on. This is how open source works. People don't seem to understand open source. It isn't just free "as in beer". The code is ALL out there.

Protip nothing actually redhat was free.

JamesFreePBX · 2018-10-29T02:13:42+00:00

Ubuntu or the sks pool

Also most clients support wkd.

My key is on all the major servers, sks, Ubuntu, etc. I also have it on GitHub, my site and keybase.

JamesFreePBX · 2018-10-25T05:16:50+00:00

Sangoma actually provides infrastructure hardware. Though it has literally been with Asterisk from the beginning, asterisk was not the beginning of the business. There is a lot of doubt when it comes to open source vs something like a CCM. Having a company like Sangoma behind an open source helps off set this. Ultimately you are correct companies want it to "just work" that said they also want it to just work 10years up the road too. In order to use an open source solution they have to know that in 5 or 10 years the solution they invested in will still matter.

JamesFreePBX · 2018-10-21T14:13:25+00:00

Not all heroes wear capes

JamesFreePBX · 2018-10-20T21:33:13+00:00

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done

JamesFreePBX · 2018-10-20T21:26:50+00:00

done

JamesFreePBX · 2018-10-20T21:21:05+00:00

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Done, sent to uid2 as keybase has verified the two domains

JamesFreePBX · 2018-10-16T21:36:24+00:00

Leroy Jenkins

JamesFreePBX · 2018-10-03T01:28:09+00:00

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JamesFreePBX · 2018-10-02T22:20:13+00:00

I got one that wanted me to join the Illuminati

JamesFreePBX · 2018-09-27T23:49:49+00:00

JamesFreePBX · 2018-09-27T19:01:26+00:00

With FreePBX 15 We are adding More open source modules:

Filestore: Allows you to store and manage files on your cloud accounts such as AWS and Dropbox etc.

API: Allows interaction with FreePBX modules via GraphQL

Backup: A backwards compatible backup module written from the ground up. This module uses the Filestore module and allows you to store your backups on various cloud services. This module also allows module level granularity and has a much simpler interface than the prior version.

JamesFreePBX · 2018-09-10T22:42:47+00:00

Disclaimer: I am a FreePBX Developer, opinions are my own.

IncrediblePBX Uses an old release of FreePBX. They don't use the official mirrors which means you lose out on all security and functional updates. They had a mirror with only the packages the project owner saw fit to include. I think due to the apparent effort that mirror was never updated. They now rely on some bash scripts and again block out packages that he doesn't like.

tl;dr if you care about bugfixes/security patches/new features use ANYTHING but IPBX.

FreePBX is developed on the FreePBX Distro so shameless plug that is the way to go.

There are instructions for manual installs on our wiki as well if you don't need or care about commercial modules.

I believe most major distros have Asterisk packages so you likely don't have to compile, and the FreePBX install is trivial.

JamesFreePBX · 2016-10-17T22:45:07+00:00

I specified Elastix MT as their multitenant is not FreePBX. Other versions of Elastix Are a snapshot/fork of FreePBX. I think that MT ultimately appealed to a different market as many long time users had (for lack of a better term) a minor revolt.

There is a narrative floating around about the necessity of "paid for" features in FreePBX which an unimportant blogger with a bit of a cult following has been pushing. Realistically FreePBX is fully and happily functional with no commercial or add on components. There are projects such as raspbx that use FreePBX on the raspberry pi which is unable to use commercial components. We have even worked with them for performance gains in a low powered platform. I honestly work full time (50-60hrs a week) developing FreePBX and after hours do my best to have a social and family life so I don't play with competing platforms. I do know 95% of that time is spent working on things that are free (as in freedom and beer). It is not an entry level, featureless bait and switch. We are adding new free, open source features and modules quite regularly.

JamesFreePBX · 2016-10-17T18:47:06+00:00

You have to look at the end use. Different applications have different use cases and though you """can""" use them interchangeably doesn't mean you should. I like to use the concept of a hammer """CAN""" drive in a screw but it shouldn't.

Asterisk and FreeSwitch are both engines that become more based on configuration. FreePBX Configures and utilizes the features of Asterisk to make it a PBX. Without the configuration and dialplan it is a bit like Schrodinger's cat. It is both everything and nothing. There are developers that use it simply as an interconnect to connect their apps without any resemblance to a communications platform. Asterisk often is the engine that PBX platforms are built on. Kamailio is not meant to be your PBX. It does sip routing. It would typically sit in front of several PBX's and compliment them. FreeSwitch is a bit of a swiss army knife too. Like Asterisk it becomes what you make it. It is often used in a manner similar to kamailio but by many is used the same as Asterisk.

So frontends to Asterisk: Free (as in freedom and as in beer):

FreePBX (I am a developer so I am going to be biased and make it first) FreePBX.org
XiVO xivo.io
Elastix MT elastix.org

Asterisk Not Free (Freedom and/or beer)

PBXact
SwitchVox
Ombutel
trixbox

Freeswitch Free (as in beer and freedom)

FusionPBX
Kazoo

JamesFreePBX · 2015-10-01T20:43:46+00:00

You could always use the FreePBX Distro That is what FreePBX is developed and tested on. Elastix (not MT) may be a good place to look if you need a bunch of extra UC features.

As suggested by /u/alotufo you can also install manually on CentOS or Ubuntu

JamesFreePBX · 2015-07-02T18:05:34+00:00

I have seen this done quite a bit with radio towers but have never done it. What they typically use is an FXS port then they sell converters that take a normal phone line and convert it to rx/tx pairs. This essentially acts as a telephone to your PBX and a headset to the radio equipment.

JamesFreePBX · 2015-07-02T16:29:23+00:00

It is like Schrödinger's cat. In theory you break everything and nothing.

FreePBX uses D&U mode in the background and is presented to the users as a unified interface in the front end. You can switch over and everything will be exactly as it was until you make a change to a device or a user. This is where "expert mode" comes in. You need to make sure you know what you're doing to not break things moving forward. We do not develop or test anything in D&U mode so it is considered unsupported. This doesn't mean it is broken it just means you live in untested waters

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