Elastix Releases New Release Candidate
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The Elastix project just this week has released Elastix 4 RC3. After eight months of silence, the project has some activity. Elastix 4 is the port of Elastix 2 to CentOS 7 (from CentOS 5.)
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Great news of course, but I just do not know if I can trust them to keep it up to date.
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WTF, listed here: http://www.elastix.com/en/downloads/
But nothing here: http://elastix.org/index.php/en/developers/changelog.html
Also nothing on their forum.
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Seems strange to go from B1 to RC3 without any public interaction / notice.
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@JaredBusch said:
WTF, listed here: http://www.elastix.com/en/downloads/
But nothing here: http://elastix.org/index.php/en/developers/changelog.html
Also nothing on their forum.
Yeah, it is a bit weird. NodeBB does something similar. They go silent on their forums sometimes and only post details to GitHub.
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So at this point, we might see the production release about the time that CentOS 8.1 is out?
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Found this information on their website. Looks like they missed the Nov 6th release date...
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New Elastix 4 interface:
http://www.elastix.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/dashboard.png
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Nice.. a modern look. So much better than FreePBX's look.
Though I have no idea what the old one looked like.
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@Dashrender said:
Nice.. a modern look. So much better than FreePBX's look.
Though I have no idea what the old one looked like.
Really bad. It was archaic and embarrassing. FreePBX was more modern and slick, if you can believe that
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Nice.. a modern look. So much better than FreePBX's look.
Though I have no idea what the old one looked like.
Really bad. It was archaic and embarrassing. FreePBX was more modern and slick, if you can believe that
Yeah I can, though its weird to think that FreePBX was better than Elastix since Elastix was built on top of FreePBX.
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@Dashrender said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
Nice.. a modern look. So much better than FreePBX's look.
Though I have no idea what the old one looked like.
Really bad. It was archaic and embarrassing. FreePBX was more modern and slick, if you can believe that
Yeah I can, though its weird to think that FreePBX was better than Elastix since Elastix was built on top of FreePBX.
Only weird because of the mixing of terms. Elastix was NOT built on top of FreePBX. FreePBX the distro and Elastix the distro both used the FreePBX web GUI. Using "built on" is completely misleading. One was just older.
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And your web GUI is not a significant factor in determining who is better. If that were so, FreeNAS would be better than FreeBSD, but it is actually reversed.
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OK, well maybe that explains a lot... I have been running this whole time under the (apparently wrong) impression that Elastix was basically extra stuff strapped on top of FreePBX (whatever version Elastix was using at the time).
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@Dashrender said:
OK, well maybe that explains a lot... I have been running this whole time under the (apparently wrong) impression that Elastix was basically extra stuff strapped on top of FreePBX (whatever version Elastix was using at the time).
FreePBX was a GUI for a decade or so. Recently they released their own PBX Distro under the same name as their GUI. Ridiculous. For the longest time there was a "FreePBX Family" of PBXs. People were used to that. Then suddenly there were all of these newbies running FreePBX as a "thing". It was so confusing. PIAF uses FreePBX too (or used to.) So did TrixBox and others.
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So what exactly is a FreePBX GUI? vs a FreePBX PBX?
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@Dashrender said:
So what exactly is a FreePBX GUI? vs a FreePBX PBX?
Well, the terms give it away
One is just a GUI, literally just a package that you install (yum install freepbx) that adds a web app that modifies configuration files. Like any configuration GUI, this one just happens to be for Asterisk.
The other is a PBX distro. Has an OS, asterisk, all of the things you have in a distro. It's basically a copy of Elastix for all intents and purposes.
