voip-o-rama

I have been trying for some time now to get a working software PBX working on a Mac, and so far no joy. I have been focusing mostly on OpenPBX.org, which is a collaborative effort to improve on Asterisk, having forked Asterisk a while back. However supporting Mac doesn’t seem to be much of a priority for them at the moment, and the current 1.2 rc3 version has a problem on Mac OS X (intel) where SIP freezes up after a short time of it running. I’m not sure if this affects PPC based Macs as well.

I have an Intel Mac Mini which I’m trying to get a software PBX onto. Given that OpenPBX.org won’t run nicely on it, I thought I’d try getting Linux installed on it, but I’ve had lots of problems with this as well. I tried the mactel-linux instructions for it, but I get to the end and try booting linux and it says “Missing operating system”. I’m now trying about six other linux distros to see if they are any better.

I’m also going to try both Asterisk and OpenPBX.org on Linux on Parallels on Mac OS X, just for the hell of it. Probably it’ll result in chopped up audio or something but we’ll see how we go. To this end I have installed trixbox (formerly Asterisk@Home) version 2.0 under Parallels, which is a custom-built version of CentOS with Asterisk, MySQL, FreePBX etc. I’ll post the Parallels disk image of this up here shortly.