A little later than intended, i’m pleased to announce Asterisk 1.6 is in Ubuntu Karmic (9.10). There is also the transition from Zaptel to DAHDI. Whilst it is largely a drop in replacement (due to trademark violation), there are some changes which are documented here, it should be quite painless.

One of the reasons for the delay was related to two rather serious DAHDI bugs meaning it couldn’t be installed, these are both now fixed and uploaded to the archives.

The important things to take note of when upgrading is documented here (ignoring the build process). However, if you are really keen and wish to know more detail, they are documented with superb detail here, here and also here.

Whilst I should stress that Karmic shouldn’t yet be considered for production telephony, it really does need some serious testing to ensure it is ready for the scheduled release date of Karmic which is October 29th(!).

If you are available to do some testing with Asterisk on Karmic we need testing of both new installs and upgrades. We also need to ensure hardware still has good support. If you encounter any bugs; please report them and ensure you state the package version and how to reproduce the bug. If you need any help with this, please do get in touch.

Thanks.

September 15th, 2009 | All, hantslug, lugradio, ubuntu, ubuntu-uk | 2 comments

Something the Ubuntu Server Team have been working on, is getting some useful little tips into the Ubuntu Server. We all have little gems that we use, making daily server administration easier. This is your chance to help, and share your wisdom with everyone else.

A tip can be something like:
“Ubuntu Server Tip: Browse the command line history with ctrl-r and then type a few characters that you know are part of the command you are looking for.”

The current roadmap suggests a tip like the above will be displayed after login, via motd (message of the day).

How can you help?
Currently there is a shortage of tips, and translations of these into other languages. I think we can easily get in excess of 500 soon.

So if you have a little gem of wisdom that is reasonably short, raise a bug and include a short description as a title, and include the tip as the main description. If it is accepted, it will be included.

Translations are another big part of this project, it’s only fair that people see these nuggets in their native language – so if you are capable, we would really appreciate help translating into different languages. Launchpad makes this area very easy to contribute to.

Once we have a few more tips, I’ll throw out a call for testing, so this is another area you can help.

Thanks for your help.

EDIT: Had some fantastic suggestions so far, but if the length could be kept concise (guide ~160 characters), it would be great

August 13th, 2009 | All, Blogroll, hantslug, lugradio, ubuntu, ubuntu-uk | 8 comments