ASTLINUX PROJECT

Like most open source software, AstLinux was created to fill a need. After discovering Asterisk® in June 2004, Kristian Kielhofner became obsessed with the possibilities of a multi-protocol telephony toolkit and Linux. The main issue with Asterisk is that without a kernel and other base software (a distribution), it doesn't do anything. It is an application, and you need much more than an application for an actual working telephony solution. The existing approach to this was to install a generic, general-purpose Linux distribution and to install Asterisk. This approach has several problems. The biggest of these problems is bloat. Most general purpose distros include everything from Apache to Samba and more. These are all fine applications, but they are not the kind of thing you want installed or running on your PBX. Also, configuration was always a problem. To have a complete Asterisk solution using a general purpose distro, you will need to know a great deal about Linux, Asterisk, and..