What's to become of the trixbox CE project?

All I can say is.....if Trix CE v2.8 is an indicator then you have your answer.

vccs, unless you can name the person at Fonality who told you that then it doesn't hold any weight. I heard the same thing from people all the time when I worked there and it was just salespeople trying to keep people from using CE and to buy the Pro version.

anti,

Where do you want me to start.

The outdated freepbx fork
CDR not working
php errors on the dashboard page
outdated Asterisk
No real way to update anything independent of Trixbox without breaking EVERYTHING. As opposed to every other distribution out there.
No 64bit distribution as opposed to every other distribution.

@Mustardman
I hope you got out of that post that I was being sarcastic. I'd agree with everything you said and still use trixbox 2.6.2.3. I'd like to add one more thing to the list, no Hud3 option, purchased or free for trixbox 2.8 ce. Yes, isymphony is great but $600+ for 6 people, imo, is a little steep for a small phone system. And the open source astmonitor and not so open fop2 are too clunky for small office use on everyone's pc's.

Haveing a 64bit version is double the QA work. There are small differences between 32 and 64 bit so we would have to QA each version. trixbox is a community driven project. I have asked several times if anybody was interested in a 64 bit version and there was little or no interest.

I think the next step forward is to go 64bit as that's where most development will take place. As for asterisk not gaining anything from 64bit maybe true, but everything else will run more efficiently and more and more drivers are being ported. Though it may not be evident in the present but surely it will be in the very near future.

If there are any issues with missing things in 64bit CentOS vs 32bit I am not aware of them. 64bit is one thing Linux is ahead of compared to Winbloz. There are things available on 64bit Linux that are not yet available on 64bit Winbloz like Java and Adobe Flash. Yes I know you can run Java and Flash on 64bit Winbloz but you have to use a 32bit browser using 32bit Java/Flash to do it. In Linux you can be native 64bit all the way.

This is starting to turn into an unproductive thread. I'm going to address a few of the issues brought up here then I'm not going to post to this thread anymore.

1. 64-bit version - It doesn't make sense to build a 64 bit version. Testing has shown that you get 0 performance gain from it in telephony applications. I realize that other distros are doing it and I'm not sure why. You need to maintain two build machines and two completely separate QA processes. Maybe this is why distros like Elastix haven't gone to Asterisk 1.6 yet. They have been busy building a 64 bit version instead. I asked the trixbox community to prioritize what they wanted and Asterisk 1.6 was much higher than a 64 bit version. We have limited resources and we can only handle so much at once. I also realize that 64 bit is the future. Now with small Atom boxes supporting 64 bit I hope it's not long before CentOS drops 32 bit support completely. I would say we are about 2 years away from that now. At that point trixbox will drop 32-bit support and go to 64-bit for everything.

2. FreePBX fork - This has been hashed over many, many, many times in other threads. The result is we need control over FreePBX upgrades and we need to be able to make changes to FreePBX code to support things like the EndPoint manager. We are not the only distro that does this Elastix also has their own fork of FreePBX. It just makes sense. We have our own fork of Asterisk and our own fork of the Linux kernel. We need all these to provide the features and stability that trixbox users want.

3. Backup - A comprehensive backup system was the most requested feature by the trixbox community that last time I asked. We have been spending about 80% of our resources for the past few months creating one. A Beta will be out shortly.

Please try to keep this forum productive. "trixbox sucks" psots don't really help anybody. trixbox is a free product used and support by the trixbox community. If you don't like something in trixbox please post constructive criticism as to what you would like to see changed and why. If you find a problem with trixbox please post a bug report so we can resolve it.

We have had about 50,000 download of trixbnox 2.8 and for the most part things seem to be going smoothly. After we finish the backup system I'll start a new thread where we can discuss what features we want in the next version of trixbox.

Andrew, I have nothing to gain, infact the opposite. It really was bugging me the last few months so I made my post about it. I love trixbox and I don't even bother with the alternatives. Glad to hear it sounds un-founded.