newbie guide to asterisk on f11?

[Bob Gustafson]

On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 16:42 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>  before i dig myself in too deep here, is there a
> newbie-level doc that shows how to install, configure and test a
> couple simple examples of asterisk under f11?  thanks.
> 
> rday
> --

There is a book on-line "Asterisk - The Future of Telephony", 2nd ed.
(604 pages) free http://astbook.asteriskdocs.org/ (See link in the
middle of the page) This doc is for version 1.4, but for a newbie, there
isn't much difference between 1.4 and 1.6

You might experiment with Asterisk using a system other than F11.
Asterisk is complex in itself, and you want to be confident that you are
fighting Asterisk configuration issues rather than F11 bugs.

However, F9/F10 uses a buggy version of Asterisk (1.605). It hasn't been
upgraded to get the fix for a few months - 1.609 has the fix.