Raspberry PI 2B as Desktop PC Really?

[Les Bell]

(04-02-2015 02:39 PM)Bill (Smithville NJ) Wrote:  We run an open source phone pbx software Asterisk. It lets us tie our radios together over the internet with high quality audio. At present, using two Beagle Bone Black (BBB) computers running Arch Linux and Asterisk. Later this week, I should be able to replace one of the BBB with the new PI 2 running a beta version of the Asterisk on Arch Linux. The resulting network is called Allstar Link.

I'll be interested to hear how that works out, Bill. I currently have a three-line (POTS) 9-extension Asterisk setup running on an IBM 1U rack-mount server. I have a 46U rack cabinet downstairs but have gradually been moving the applications that were running there out to the cloud (with great success), and the Asterisk server is one of the last things I'd like to get rid of. If I could replace it with a Pi in a small box screwed to the wall somewhere, I'd be a happy camper

--- Les [ex-GM4CFM]