As a newcomer to Asterisk, you will not be welcomed
with open arms. First, you will find almost no
documentation on it's features. Second, if you try to
ask questions, you will be flamed and pointed to
worthless how-tos and 'the wiki'. These worthless
documents can only be useful for explaining how things
work to those already in-the-know. Lastly, Asterisk
is so bug ridden, expect frequent segmentation faults.
With a community so 'anti-n00b', don't expect your
problems to be fixed anytime soon.
RUN!!! Don't walk... away from Aterisk.
Hmmmm! I: 0) Was a Newbie 1) Had no (or little) Linux experience. 2) Found * with Google 3) Read 4) Read 5) Read 6) Installed and got * running 7) Read, Read, Read 8) Bought, installed, set up channel bank 9) Asked my first real question of the list - was happy with reply 10) Read, Read, Read 11) Bought, installed, set up 20 SIP Phones 12) Read, Read, Read 13) Very happy with result.
Is there a message here? I'm not brilliant, not a linux/asterisk guru. Just patient, determined and willing to try a lot of stuff so that I know what to ask and when. Do I have any advice? Yes: Read, Read, Read. It really does work - and by the way, so does asterisk. Since July of this year I have never had a seg fault, never had asterisk freeze or crash, and since I've gone fully online in September, there has not been a single problem related to asterisk. And while the documentation is, well, scattered, it is nevertheless out there. And, for what it's worth, if you ask a question about the more arcane, poorly documented stuff, no matter how dumb (well, almost), you will never get flamed.
Finally, I rather prefer taking a few lumps from the * community than having the experience I had with our local Cisco people, who took so long to call back with information about their products (which when it finally arrived, was wrong anyway - I found the correct information on the * list!), that in the meantime I had discovered *, bought my hardware and set up a functioning system.
So - Shutup, take your lumps and do your homework.
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