[Mac-telephony-list] LinuxPPC & * or OpenPBX?

[Thoth via List]

How about linux on PPC?  Surely in the realm of mac only establishments there 
are tons of old hardware deemed too slow to be able to run the memory 
intensive multimedia apps we have grown accustomed to using?  Without the 
bulky GUI of a window manager running wouldn't these machines make decent 
digital secretaries able to take incoming calls and redirect them elsewhere?  
Both debian and gentoo are well suited and supported on the powerpc platform.  
And both have Asterisk in their package managers, meaning asterisk 
installation should be a snap.  I have an amd64 box running gentoo that I am 
typing this on right now, which is also answering my phone nowadays through a 
spa-3102.  Gentoo was able to compile and get the asterisk server running for 
me without my intervention, I merely modified the configuration files.  I 
plan on revamping an old beige mac to see how asterisk runs on modest 
hardware.  Does anyone else have experience with linux on PPC as a PBX?

Josh

On Wednesday 20 December 2006 12:28, Edward Eigerman via List wrote:
> Well, since you bring that up...
>
> Has anyone gotten a linux based set up working on an Intel Mac? I
> really wanted to do Trixbox, but that seems to be no-go.
>
> Ed
>
> On Dec 20, 2006, at 1:18 PM, Colin Anderson via List wrote:
> >> All I want (and I believe I represent a LOT of Mac users) is a way to
> >> eliminate my dependance on proprietary phone systems.  Let me
> >> configure my phone system in an easy and user friendly way (GUI).
> >
> > If you want to just get it done, buy a Dell 430SC and Xorcom's 8
> > port USB
> > Astribank, and download Trixbox. It'll cost you about $1200 total.
> > Friendly
> > GUI and all. Unfortunately, once you throw Macs in the mix,
> > hardware PSTN
> > interfaces have to be offloaded to a seperate device (such as a SIP/
> > PSTN
> > gateway) because of driver issues. Once you let go of the notion
> > that it
> > *has* to run on a Mac, things usually go so much smoother. I'm not
> > denegrating this project and Sunrise's work (in fact, I'm excited
> > by it:
> > this is why I'm subscribed to the list), but the reality is that
> > Asterisk is
> > written for Linux/x86 and any other implementation is going to be
> > problematic by it's very nature. This will most likely go away in
> > time, as
> > Apple becomes more MacIntel but for now...
> >
> > I'd sure like to try Asterisk on the new xserve. Should be able to
> > plug in a
> > Digium and Sangoma card and off you go. Linux, of course.
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