FreePBX Distro

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FreePBX Distro
Developer(s) Sangoma Technologies Corporation
Stable release
  • SNG7-PBX16-64bit-2208-2 [1]
/ 2 August 2022(21 months ago) (2022-08-02)
Operating system Linux
Available in English, Bulgarian, Chinese, German, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Swedish, Spanish
Type Voice over IP softswitch
License Freeware
Website www.freepbx.org/freepbx-distro

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.

Contents

The FreePBX Distro Linux distribution is based on CentOS, which maintains binary compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. FreePBX has contributed to the popularity of Asterisk. [2]

Installation

The Official FreePBX Distro is installed from a CD-ROM image available by web download, that includes the system CentOS, Asterisk, FreePBX GUI and assorted dependencies. [3]

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. [4] [5]

The FreePBX Distro supports a large number of phone models via open-source modules. [5] [6]

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. [7] [8] [9]

FreePBX has over 1 million active production PBXs and over 20,000 new systems added each month. [10] Supported PBX phone manufacturers include Aastra Technologies, Algo, AND, Audiocodes, Cisco Systems, Cyberdata, Digium, Grandstream, Mitel, Panasonic, Polycom, Sangoma, Snom, Xorcom and Yealink  [ zh ]. [11]

The core telephony engine is Asterisk (PBX), as configured by the Open Source FreePBX GUI. [12]

The latest stable release is FreePBX Distro Stable SNG7-PBX16-64bit-2208-2 [13] based on these main components:

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References

  1. ↑ "SNG7 PBX16 Release Notes".
  2. ↑ Web Interface; O'Reilly
  3. ↑ Video 7511; TMC.net
  4. ↑ beta 2 announcement Archived 2013-01-03 at the Wayback Machine ; December 12, 2012 article; FreePBX; retrieved December 2012
  5. 1 2 The 159
  6. ↑ GitHub
  7. ↑ Video 5733; TMC.net
  8. ↑ FreePBX to Release Their Own Distro Archived 2013-01-25 at the Wayback Machine ; March 28, 2011 article; WordPress; retrieved
  9. ↑ FreePBX Archived 2013-03-29 at the Wayback Machine ; Asterisk.net
  10. ↑ Telephony features...; TMC.net
  11. ↑ "PR Web". Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2013-04-27.
  12. ↑ Good News...; TMC.net
  13. ↑ "Downloads | FreePBX" . Retrieved 13 January 2023.
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