Comparison ?

atomodachi's picture
Posted March 2nd, 2010 by atomodachi (tadpole)

End-of-the-day, even though my objective is to use Asterisk PBX, but wondering which one is comparatively better between:

1) FreePBX,
2) Trixbox CE

in regard of:

1) Ease of Installation,
2) Ease of Configuration,
3) Usability etc.

Note that, my objective is to use the PBX for setting a VoIP telephony network for home use ONLY (NOT for business or commercial purpose)

Thanks.


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FreePbx is not an all in one

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On March 2nd, 2010 w5waf (Leap Frog) said:

FreePbx is not an all in one installation. It is the GUI to program a telephony engine such as asterisk.

FreePbx is a component of Trixbox.

Trixbox is a full installation including an operating system, asterisk, and FreePbx.

In addition there are several "flavors" of Asterisk/FreePbx distributions including, for example, Trixbox, PBX in a Flash, Elastix to name a few.

The Trixbox distribution uses a fork of the "standard" FreePbx program, and as such what you see in this forum may, or may not be applicable to Trixbox.

Finally, the ease of installation is pretty much the same. You put an ISO image on a CD on a bare metal computer and everything is installed automatically.

You may need cards for your PC depending on how you want your system to operate.

Bill/W5WAF


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The "forked" version of

mickecarlsson's picture
On March 2nd, 2010 mickecarlsson (Developer) said:

The "forked" version of FreePBX that trixbox uses is a very old version, they "forked" the 2.5 version and puzzled together that with Asterisk 1.6.

If you need a home system that get updates and attention from the developers you should stay away from trixbox and go for one of the following, AsteriskNOW, Elastix, Fonicaprojects or PBX in a Flash.

Note, the above list is in alphabetic order and does not in any way reflect my personal choice.


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If you just use the system

yhfung's picture
On March 14th, 2010 yhfung (tadpole) said:

If you just use the system at home, why don't consider an IP-PBX (http://www.freepbx.org/terms-of-use) for about USD150? The FXO port is for connecting your residential fixed PSTN line. I got one receently and found it very useful. It only consumes 4W. You may google it for more information.

YH


In fairness to both

samwentcher's picture
On November 25th, 2010 samwentcher (tadpole) said:

In fairness to both software, both of them are easy to install, configure and use. It only depends on the familiarity.