The FreePBX Distro is a freeware unified communications software system that consists of a graphical user interface (GUI) for configuring, controlling, and managing Asterisk PBX software. The FreePBX Distro includes packages that offer VoIP, PBX, Fax, IVR, voice-mail and email functions. The FreePBX Distro

Linux distribution A Linux distribution (often abbreviated as distro) is an operating system made from a software collection that includes the Linux kernel and, often, a package management system. Linux users usually obtain their operating system by downloading one ...

is based on

CentOS CentOS (, from Community Enterprise Operating System; also known as CentOS Linux) is a Linux distribution that provides a free and open-source community-supported computing platform, functionally compatible with its upstream source, Red Hat En ...

, which maintains binary compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. FreePBX has contributed to the popularity of Asterisk.

Installation

The Official FreePBX Distro is installed from a CD-ROM image available by web download, that includes the system

Asterisk The asterisk ( ), from Late Latin , from Ancient Greek , ''asteriskos'', "little star", is a typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a heraldic star. Computer scientists and mathematicians often voc ...

, FreePBX GUI and assorted dependencies.

Support for telephony hardware

The FreePBX Distro has built-in support for cards from multiple vendors, including Digium, OpenVox, Alto, Rhino Equipment, Xorcom and Sangoma.The 159
/ref> The FreePBX Distro supports a large number of phone models via open-source modules.

Development

FreePBX made its debut in 2004 as the AMP project (Asterisk Management Portal). The FreePBX Distro was released in 2011 as an All-In-One solution for building a PBX using Asterisk, CentOS and FreePBX. FreePBX has over 1 million active production PBXs and over 20,000 new systems added each month. Supported PBX phone manufacturers include Aastra Technologies, Algo, AND, Audiocodes, Cisco Systems, Cyberdata, Digium, Grandstream, Mitel, Panasonic, Polycom, Sangoma, Snom, Xorcom and Yealink. The core telephony engine is Asterisk (PBX), as configured by the Open Source FreePBX GUI. The version numbering system summarizes the versions of core components of the FreePBX Distro. As an example, the ''FreePBX Distro 2.210.62-1'' version string has the following components. The first number (2) represents the major track number. This second number (210) refers to ''FreePBX 2.10'' GUI. The third number (62) refers to ''CentOS 6.2'', and the final number (1) is used as the minor release revision of this major track number. The latest stable release is FreePBX Distro Stable SNG7-PBX-64bit-2104-1 based on these main components: *FreePBX 15 *CentOS 7.8 *Asterisk 13, 16 or 17 Shell update scripts for each major release track are available on wiki.freepbx.org.Updating FreePBX
freepbx.org wiki page

References

External links

* {{linux distributions VoIP software FreePBX Asterisk (PBX) Telecommunications