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.

FreePBX Distro
Developer(s)Sangoma Technologies Corporation
Stable release
/ 1 October 2017 (2017-10-01)
Operating systemGNU/Linux
Available inEnglish, Bulgarian, Chinese, German, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Swedish, Spanish
TypeVoice over IP softswitch
LicenseFreeware
Websitehttp://www.freepbx.org/freepbx-distro

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.[3]

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.[4]

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.[5][6]

The FreePBX Distro supports a large number of phone models via open-source modules.[6][7]

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.[8][9][10]

FreePBX has over 1 million active production PBXs and over 20,000 new systems added each month.[11] Supported PBX phone manufacturers include Aastra Technologies, Algo, AND, Audiocodes, Cisco Systems, Cyberdata, Digium, Grandstream, Mitel, Panasonic, Polycom, Sangoma, Snom, Xorcom and Yealink.[12]

The core telephony engine is Asterisk (PBX), as configured by the Open Source FreePBX GUI.[13]

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-2002[14] based on these main components:

  • FreePBX 15
  • CentOS 7.6
  • Asterisk 13 or 16


Shell update scripts for each major release track are available on wiki.freepbx.org.[15]

References
  1. "FreePBX Distro SNG7 - PBX Platforms - Documentation". wiki.freepbx.org. Retrieved 27 October 2017. FreePBX Distro 7 is the recommended environment for FreePBX 14.
  2. http://wiki.freepbx.org/display/PPS/10.13.66+Release+Notes
  3. Web Interface; O'Reilly
  4. Video 7511; TMC.net
  5. beta 2 announcement Archived 2013-01-03 at the Wayback Machine; December 12, 2012 article; FreePBX; retrieved December 2012
  6. The 159
  7. GitHub
  8. Video 5733; TMC.net
  9. FreePBX to Release Their Own Distro Archived 2013-01-25 at the Wayback Machine; March 28, 2011 article; WordPress; retrieved
  10. FreePBX Archived 2013-03-29 at the Wayback Machine; Asterisk.net
  11. Telephony features...; TMC.net
  12. PR Web
  13. Good News...; TMC.net
  14. "Downloads | FreePBX". Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  15. Updating FreePBX, freepbx.org wiki page
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