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Most enterprise PBXs, and FreePBX is no exception, give you the ENTIRE system. It's an "appliance." You don't download it as software and install on top of an OS as if it were an office suite or note taking application (although that's possible.) What you are expected to do is to download the "appliance" ISO and use that to do a full install. In this terminology, and appliance means that the entire system is pre-packaged for you (OS, software, configuration, etc.) So you install it the same as if it were an operating system (because it is) and voila, done. That's it. Had you installed FreePBX 15 instead of CentOS 7, you'd have been 100% done, with FreePBX up and working and fully configured in the same time it took you to install CentOS 7 and the same effort. It's literally that easy. Easier, in fact, as there are fewer additional choices to be made.
This is meant for completely non-technical people in a business to be able to be up and running in minutes. If it feels hard, in any way (for the basics), then something is amiss. It should be super, duper quick and simple to get your PBX up and running.
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@scottalanmiller said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
Most enterprise PBXs, and FreePBX is no exception, give you the ENTIRE system. It's an "appliance." You don't download it as software and install on top of an OS as if it were an office suite or note taking application (although that's possible.)
At least not any more, and not for several years... but there was a time, not THAT long ago that you did.
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@Dashrender said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
@scottalanmiller said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
Most enterprise PBXs, and FreePBX is no exception, give you the ENTIRE system. It's an "appliance." You don't download it as software and install on top of an OS as if it were an office suite or note taking application (although that's possible.)
At least not any more, and not for several years... but there was a time, not THAT long ago that you did.
Pretty long ago. Like mid-2000s I'd say. That's more than a generation in IT terms.
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@scottalanmiller said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
@Dashrender said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
@scottalanmiller said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
Most enterprise PBXs, and FreePBX is no exception, give you the ENTIRE system. It's an "appliance." You don't download it as software and install on top of an OS as if it were an office suite or note taking application (although that's possible.)
At least not any more, and not for several years... but there was a time, not THAT long ago that you did.
Pretty long ago. Like mid-2000s I'd say. That's more than a generation in IT terms.
That doesn't seem right - I recall building my first FreePBX and that was only like 5-7 years max and you had to install from scripts - they didn't have a DL ISO for install.
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@Dashrender said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
@scottalanmiller said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
@Dashrender said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
@scottalanmiller said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
Most enterprise PBXs, and FreePBX is no exception, give you the ENTIRE system. It's an "appliance." You don't download it as software and install on top of an OS as if it were an office suite or note taking application (although that's possible.)
At least not any more, and not for several years... but there was a time, not THAT long ago that you did.
Pretty long ago. Like mid-2000s I'd say. That's more than a generation in IT terms.
That doesn't seem right - I recall building my first FreePBX and that was only like 5-7 years max and you had to install from scripts - they didn't have a DL ISO for install.
I'm guessing you were looking at a cloud install or somewhere where the ISO could not be used. FreePBX has, I think, had it from the beginning. But Trixbox definitely had it in the mid-2000s at least. Trixbox was what Elastix essentially replaced, which was replaced by FreePBX. So we are on the third generation of ISO based installs, at least and FreePBX is not new by any stretch.
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Trixbox was nasty.
Elastix as a distro was 2006 sometime.
FreePBX as a distro was 2011.
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@Dashrender said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
@scottalanmiller said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
@Dashrender said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
@scottalanmiller said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
Most enterprise PBXs, and FreePBX is no exception, give you the ENTIRE system. It's an "appliance." You don't download it as software and install on top of an OS as if it were an office suite or note taking application (although that's possible.)
At least not any more, and not for several years... but there was a time, not THAT long ago that you did.
Pretty long ago. Like mid-2000s I'd say. That's more than a generation in IT terms.
That doesn't seem right - I recall building my first FreePBX and that was only like 5-7 years max and you had to install from scripts - they didn't have a DL ISO for install.
If I had to guess, you did PBX in a Flash from Nerdvittles.
That was a scripted install on top of CentOS. But it was still nothing more manual than a single script.
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@JaredBusch said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
@Dashrender said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
@scottalanmiller said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
@Dashrender said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
@scottalanmiller said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
Most enterprise PBXs, and FreePBX is no exception, give you the ENTIRE system. It's an "appliance." You don't download it as software and install on top of an OS as if it were an office suite or note taking application (although that's possible.)
At least not any more, and not for several years... but there was a time, not THAT long ago that you did.
Pretty long ago. Like mid-2000s I'd say. That's more than a generation in IT terms.
That doesn't seem right - I recall building my first FreePBX and that was only like 5-7 years max and you had to install from scripts - they didn't have a DL ISO for install.
If I had to guess, you did PBX in a Flash from Nerdvittles.
That was a scripted install on top of CentOS. But it was still nothing more manual than a single script.
I remember that. "In a Flash", haha.
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@scottalanmiller said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
@JaredBusch said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
@Dashrender said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
@scottalanmiller said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
@Dashrender said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
@scottalanmiller said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
Most enterprise PBXs, and FreePBX is no exception, give you the ENTIRE system. It's an "appliance." You don't download it as software and install on top of an OS as if it were an office suite or note taking application (although that's possible.)
At least not any more, and not for several years... but there was a time, not THAT long ago that you did.
Pretty long ago. Like mid-2000s I'd say. That's more than a generation in IT terms.
That doesn't seem right - I recall building my first FreePBX and that was only like 5-7 years max and you had to install from scripts - they didn't have a DL ISO for install.
If I had to guess, you did PBX in a Flash from Nerdvittles.
That was a scripted install on top of CentOS. But it was still nothing more manual than a single script.
I remember that. "In a Flash", haha.
Compared to the manual processes that existed before then, it was good.
In the end I had issues with the crap that the system pre-setup. It was all at the novice or hobbyist. Not business.
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@JaredBusch said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
@scottalanmiller said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
@JaredBusch said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
@Dashrender said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
@scottalanmiller said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
@Dashrender said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
@scottalanmiller said in linphone: remove/hide “default identity”:
Most enterprise PBXs, and FreePBX is no exception, give you the ENTIRE system. It's an "appliance." You don't download it as software and install on top of an OS as if it were an office suite or note taking application (although that's possible.)
At least not any more, and not for several years... but there was a time, not THAT long ago that you did.
Pretty long ago. Like mid-2000s I'd say. That's more than a generation in IT terms.
That doesn't seem right - I recall building my first FreePBX and that was only like 5-7 years max and you had to install from scripts - they didn't have a DL ISO for install.
If I had to guess, you did PBX in a Flash from Nerdvittles.
That was a scripted install on top of CentOS. But it was still nothing more manual than a single script.
I remember that. "In a Flash", haha.
Compared to the manual processes that existed before then, it was good.
In the end I had issues with the crap that the system pre-setup. It was all at the novice or hobbyist. Not business.
Definitely, it was always very hokey. Way, way too many gizmos and whatevers and way too little "feels enterprise stable."
