configuring asterisk:cheap phone?

[Tyler Littlefield]

hello,
I use the apt package, though I wouldn't do that on a production server; 
it's dependencies make no sense at all.
It wants xserver for asterisk, weird. :)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry D. Cudney" <terry.cudney at gmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: configuring asterisk:cheap phone?


> Hi all,
>
>   It looks like there are a number of people here who are using or are 
> interested in voip.
>   Asterisk has a steep learning curve and I wouldn't recommend starting 
> into it if you are only going to use it for a short time. ON the other 
> hand, if you can justify the time to learn it, using straight asterisk 
> 1.4/1.6 is very accessible for us bliind users. All configs are text 
> files. Once you get a handle on it, setting up new phones/lines is very 
> quick and easy. If you are using Debian, there is an asterisk apt package 
> that does quite nicely fo rthe base asterisk installation.
>   I have not looked at the numerous  graphical configuration systems (like 
> pbxinaflash or trixbox). Perhaps some of you who have used some of these 
> could comment on their accessibility using commandline tools/speakup.
>   How many people here have asterisk (or other voip server) running that 
> we could maybe set up a "blinknet" based on iax2 (or even sip)?
>
>   Let's all thank Kirk for his liberality in not restricting postings here 
> to just speakup-related topics!
>
>   --terry
>
> -- 
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