[oclug] Linux PBX (Asterisk) experience anyone?

[James]

Stephen La Rocque wrote:
> Anyone here have any experiences (positive/negative) regarding
> configuring and running an Asterisk-based PBX?
>
> We're losing our space on campus and have to buy or build a phone system
> and are looking for inexpensive ways to do that and one option we are
> interested in is to go open source and use Asterisk, but we don't know
> much about it.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve La Rocque
> Canadian Mathematical Society.
>
>    
My company uses Debian and asterisk.
Works great.
No harddrivc, it uses a compact Flash.
I don't know much more about those systems, I am on the system 
administrator side of the business, not phones.
They don't require much maintenance, they just run. :-)