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As Linux continues to offer a strong alternative to Windows, more and more people are curious about installing and using Linux. For a “newbie” or those new to Linux, one option is to use a Linux Live CD which allows you to start and use Linux from a CD. The advantage to this approach is that there is no installation required and you get to test drive a specific Linux distribution. A major disadvantage to using a Live CD is that it’s very slow due to the input/output speeds occurring from your CD-ROM. Also, if you only have 1 computer, booting from a Linux Live CD ties-up your Windows operating system, making it non-useable while you use Linux. [Read more →]

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In the final video of this 10 part video series on Asterisk, I summarize what we learned. I also discuss a few additional websites/resources at your disposal to help you in your future VOIP endeavors.

Congratulations on making it through all 10 videos, and thanks for watching!

Tags: Asterisk, Linux, VOIP, Video Tutorial by simon
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Welcome to video number 9 in this 10 part series on Asterisk! We continue with our overview of how to use the Trixbox CE web interface to manage Asterisk. In part 8, we discussed “user mode”. In this video, we review the second management option: “administration mode”
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Welcome to the video 8 in this 10 part series of videos on Asterisk! Now that we have Trixbox CE installed, we can start using the Tribox web interface to administer Asterisk.

There are 2 options to manage the Trixbox system: 1) user mode 2) administration mode
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In the seventh video in this 10 part series of videos on Asterisk, life becomes easier! I explain how to download and use Trixbox, a web interface used to easily configure Asterisk.

If you have watched the previous videos, you may be thinking that Asterisk is really complicated, you must know Linux, be a command line guru, and be familiar with voice protocols, contexts and plenty of other abstract Asterisk lingo! [Read more →]

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