(I kinda wish this forum would maintain Subject: lines across posts to a thread rather than changing the Subject: line every time, but that’s just me…)
I am currently using AsteriskNOW 2.0.2 for a pro bono PBX project for a non-profit. So far I haven’t found anything that I need that it won’t do, and the help I have received, mainly here but also on the AsteriskNOW forum, has been phenomenal.
If I had it to do over again I would probably have gone with the FreePBX distro, only so that I could consolidate all Q&A traffic on one forum (this one) rather than having to determine first whether it’s a FreePBX problem or an Asterisk (or AsteriskNOW) problem.
I do recommend, though, that you put a lot of thought into which version to use because you may well end up having to stick with it for the foreseeable future. I have found that the migration path from, say, AsteriskNOW 2.0.2 to AsteriskNOW 3.0.0 or from AsteriskNOW (any version) to FreePBX Distro (any version) is very difficult indeed. I have done things that people here and on other forums recommend, and they do not work. So I’m still looking for a way to do the migration reliably, and until I can find one I’m sticking with AsteriskNOW 2.0.2.
One problem with upgrading from, say, AsteriskNOW 2.0.2 to AsteriskNOW 3.0.0 is that the former is based on CentOS 5.8 and the latter on CentOS 6.x. That creates its own set up upgrade problems that don’t appear to be addressed by the Asterisk distros.
All else being equal, the latest stable version of the FreePBX distro is probably a good bet.
Eric / www.rkt-tech.com