Hi Greg,
Thanks for the reply. I understand what you are saying and I was hoping that I could do that exact same thing in terms of picking and choosing the features. Following the guides here and elsewhere, I really found it educational and liberating to install every piece by itself and demistify the stock image that you provided.
I guess my question was really about which versions of Asterisk and FreePBX to use (although reading my post this wasn't very clear). There is a number of the posts that go back and forth between versions and the manner of installing the packages (build from source or use apt-get) that actually works on sheevaplug. And being new to this, I just wanted to get the latest concensous on which version works on Debain on SheevaPlug with the least amount of headache. The only reason I included my general requirements was so that you and others have some idea of what I will want to do and can suggest the most appropriate versions.
Regards,
Al
PS: I know you live in Canada, but do you live in Vancouver by any chance?
Nope, South Western Ontario...
Well you have a few ways of looking at this.
My released image is old. Yep. Its like 1+ year old now, Built on Asterisk 1.6.x and FreePBX 2.5.x or something.
They are stable. I didn't need feature XYZ, and they had enough of the core feature set to satisfy 98% of the likely end users. So thats what I went with.
We have guys (and gals) here running stuff much newer, some upgraded to FreePBX 2.8 (you can do that via the web interface), some have built asterisk 1.8.x to use with the up/down google voice integration (always better to spend a few bucks and have something that won't anger the wife frankly)....
Apt vs compile from source, so far, I've had better luck compiling from source for Asterisk. That too is hit and miss with what is in Apt. I've gone both ways before.
Some guys like to run bleeding code, latest versions, and all that Jazz.
I'm an engineer of sorts, used to build big scary machines and control systems. If it works, you leave it the heck alone. So in my case, I built PlugPBX 1.00 - and it works. Yah, flashyrbid gets around crappy SD cards, and you need a newer kernel to get serial console working cleanly on the newer HW rev of Sheevas', and some say the RTC floats, but its all on the todo list.
Point is, for as long (actually longer) PlugPBX.org went live, my little sheevaplug is sitting in my basement (along with others), quietly answering calls, saving voicemail, emailing messages, gtalking us who calls the house, and placing and receiving boring old calls - and the wife isn't complaining. It just works.
So unless you need to have feature XYZ and will just die without it, you likely will get everything you need from the stock image, its purely there for ease. I put these forums here to infect people with the hobby and passion to 'roll their own', and infect more minds with embeded fun, Linux, and what a real OS should be (Unix-alike).
All part of the evil plan. What I've done is exported a small hobby of mine into other peoples minds muhahahah!
You are too focused on the version of nut A, and bolt B - and need to step back and just focus on - what the hell do you want the PBX to do - and what 'value' can you leverage version agnostic to get there... Believe me, there is a ton.
