Elastix Releases New Release Candidate

@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.

scottalanmiller

@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.

scottalanmiller

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.

Dashrender

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).

scottalanmiller

@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.

Dashrender

So what exactly is a FreePBX GUI? vs a FreePBX PBX?

scottalanmiller

@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.

NetworkNerd

@JaredBusch said:

Great news of course, but I just do not know if I can trust them to keep it up to date.

I'd be curious to know that too, especially after your adventure with yum updates and going from Elastix 2.4 to 2.5.