This is so cool. We have a PBX here at Homeport, but it’s a very old hybrid digital/analog system that works ‘okay’, but the handsets are rapidly falling apart, and it really just needs to be trashed.
I’ve been watching The Asterisk Project for quite a while – it being an opensource linux based PBX system, but haven’t jumped into trying it because the rampup / investment in hardware process was more than I was ready to deal with.
Now someone’s put together Asterisk@Home, a pre-packaged bootable CD that will install Asterisk for you, and do all the basic configuration, including setting up the web interface and everything.
Tempting… tempting…
(This was pointed out from an article on slashdot