User guide

12.4.1 FreePBX
It is a PBX framework build at the top of asterisk that includes a GUI to manage a asterisk based
telephone system. FreePBX grew up in its youth as AMP (Asterisk Management Portal).
Most of the development of FreePBX is under CentOS, a freely-available Linux distribution that is
based on Red Hat's commercial products
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.
The FreePBX project has made made available a ISO Image that includes a standard implementation
of asterisk in Linux with FreePBX.
Projects that use FreePBX include Trixbox and Elastik.
12.4.1.1 Trixbox
Trixbox
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, formely known as Asterisk @ Home (asterisk at home) or AAH is an asterisk based solution
that includes among other things the FreePBX GUI. Trixbox has been recently acquired by Fonality, a
company that developed PBXtra, a commercial modification of Asterisk.
12.4.1.2 Elastik
Elastix
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is an appliance software that includes FreePBX that integrates the best tools available for
Asterisk-based PBXs into a single, easy-to-use interface. The software runs on CentOS and there are
ISO images available.
12.5 AsteriskGUI
It is the graphical interface built-in the Asterisk 1.4 software series.
Projects that use the AsteriskGUI include:
12.5.1 AsteriskNOW
It is a Linux distribution based on rPath
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. AsteriskNOW
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includes a GUI designed by Digium known as
Asterisk GUI. AsteriskNow, was formerly known as PoundKey.
12.5.2 CosmoPBX
CosmoPBX
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is built from Knoppix which has solid Debian Linux foundation. CosmoPBX is bundled
with Asterisk 1.4.0 and Asterisk-GUI Beta.
44. FreePBX review http://www.freepbx.org/news/2007-09-05/freepbx-devices-and-users-under-the-hood
45. Trixbox download http://www.trixbox.org
46. Elastik download http://www.elastix.org/
47. rPath http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=rpath http://www.rpath.com
48. AsteriskNOW download http://www.asterisknow.org
49. CosmoPBX http://cosmopbx.sourceforge.net/
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