[wellylug] FWD: Install Linux OS - Asterisk

[Jethro Carr]

On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 11:33 +1200, Alick Wilson wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I suggest one of the following Asterisk distros:
> - Trixbox CE, which is available either as a bootable install CD-ROM or
> VMWare image. I have been running Trixbox CE for several years on a junk PC
> (currently Pentium 700 MHz with 256 MB memory and 8 GB hard disk).

Trixbox is nice to play with to try out the technology, but I advise
against deploying it in production anywhere.

There have been a number of security problems with Trixbox and I've seen
times where they don't push out updates to fix known security flaws very
fast.

I'm also not pleased with their security design - In once case, a web
interface of trixbox could be exploited to give you a root shell, due to
the way they allow their PHP scripts to run as root!


-- 
Jethro Carr
www.jethrocarr.com/index.php?cms=blog
www.amberdms.com
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