FreePBX Distro
Developer(s)Sangoma Technologies Corporation
Stable release
  • SNG7-PBX16-64bit-2208-2[1]
/ 2 August 2022 (2022-08-02)
Operating systemLinux
Available inEnglish, Bulgarian, Chinese, German, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Swedish, Spanish
TypeVoice over IP softswitch
LicenseFreeware
Websitewww.freepbx.org/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.

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.[2]

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.[3]

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.[4][5]

The FreePBX Distro supports a large number of phone models via open-source modules.[5][6]

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.[7][8][9]

FreePBX has over 1 million active production PBXs and over 20,000 new systems added each month.[10] Supported PBX phone manufacturers include Aastra Technologies, Algo, AND, Audiocodes, Cisco Systems, Cyberdata, Digium, Grandstream, Mitel, Panasonic, Polycom, Sangoma, Snom, Xorcom and Yealink.[11]

The core telephony engine is Asterisk (PBX), as configured by the Open Source FreePBX GUI.[12]

The latest stable release is FreePBX Distro Stable SNG7-PBX16-64bit-2208-2[13] based on these main components:

  • FreePBX 16
  • CentOS 7.8
  • Asterisk 16, 18 or 19

References

  1. ↑ "SNG7 PBX16 Release Notes".
  2. ↑ Web Interface; O'Reilly
  3. ↑ Video 7511; TMC.net
  4. ↑ beta 2 announcement Archived 2013-01-03 at the Wayback Machine; December 12, 2012 article; FreePBX; retrieved December 2012
  5. 1 2 The 159
  6. ↑ GitHub
  7. ↑ Video 5733; TMC.net
  8. ↑ FreePBX to Release Their Own Distro Archived 2013-01-25 at the Wayback Machine; March 28, 2011 article; WordPress; retrieved
  9. ↑ FreePBX Archived 2013-03-29 at the Wayback Machine; Asterisk.net
  10. ↑ Telephony features...; TMC.net
  11. ↑ PR Web
  12. ↑ Good News...; TMC.net
  13. ↑ "Downloads | FreePBX". Retrieved 13 January 2023.
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