[Server-devel] Reschedule XS meeting for Friday Aug 15 - or 10 PM Aug 14 EST ---- was (Re: not up for Friday meeting about the XS)

[Sameer Verma]

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 12:11:56PM +0545, Bryan Berry wrote:
>>VoIP would be more effective but would require much more effort.
>
> Fedora recently set up its own VOIP system, so there may be experts
> lurking nearby who could be tempted into assisting you.
>
> Michael
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I'm no VoIP expert, but I played with it for a bit on different
distros. Trixbox (http://www.trixbox.org/) is CentOS based and is very
featureful. On the other hand, Astlinux (http://www.astlinux.org/) is
very interesting in that it has a very small footprint. Astlinux runs
off a CF card (64MB if I remember correctly). You can also run it off
a bootable CD. All the config is browser-based, and all the config
files live on a separate USB key (or any other partition).

I suspect we will need something in between.

Also along the lines of VoIP clients, I've been looking at IAX2
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Asterisk_eXchange) clients instead
of SIP. iaxcomm (http://iaxclient.sourceforge.net/iaxcomm/) is a
simple IAX2 client. On Ubuntu its current, but I haven't found any
active RPMs. IAX routes quite nicely as compared to SIP. I'd be
interested in seeing a sugarized iaxcomm on the XO.

Sameer
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