FreeSWITCHBOX
Make free calls to US and Canada with freeSWITCHBOX using Goole Voice.
freeSWITCHBOX is a tailor made VoIP distro in a box. Includes most up to date and extremely stable freeswitch build from the source code repository. Also included is the cutting edge blue.box GUI (also taken from the source tree, most up to date) for freeswitch configuration and administration. freeSWITCHBOX is built using Suse Studio and comes in LiveCD, USB Stick, HDD Image, Xen/Virtualbox/VMWare Image formats and also as a EC2 AMI. Get started with free telephone system within minutes.
Example Use cases:
*Reduce your phone bill to Zero: Connect your home telephone instrument to FreeWITCHBOX, Make and receive calls to US numbers with Google Voice account, for absolutely free.
*Receive and make Skype Calls from a home phone instrument. (Linksys PAP2T Adapter Recommended)
*Setup a complete Home Telephony Switch with IVR, extensions, automated call forwarding etc.
*Complete Enterprise Grade EPBX System
(Note: Username= root , password =blank, no password , set password at first boot. FreePBX-v3 config: database, username = freepbx. Use default configs. ).
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Media
USB & disk image
This is an image of your disk, ready to be written to either a USB drive or your hard disk. When written, it will erase all data on a disk. During the first boot, your partition will bee automatically resized to fill available space.
ISO image
Burn this ISO file to a DVD (or CD, if the space allows), and you'll be able to boot directly from the disc.
Virtual
VMware / VirtualBox / KVM image
Whether you use VMware, VirtualBox, or KVM, this vmdk is a ready-to-use virtual appliance.
Xen guest image
This Xen guest image is ready to run on a Xen hypervisor host.
Release notes
2.0.2
- added blue.box from 2600HZ
- added skype installer script
- modified timeout in cherokee.conf
- freeswitch sound files (sounds-install, moh-install)
Technical Details
Appliance configuration
Accounts
| User | Password |
|---|---|
| root | <not set> |
Basic settings
| Keyboard: | english-us |
|---|---|
| Time zone: | Europe/Berlin |
| Language: | en_US.UTF-8 |
| Network: | dhcp |
| Firewall: | disabled |
Software
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Security summary
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Includes the following unofficial sources:
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No custom software packages were uploaded.
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A boot script is included.

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Everyone's comments
Brad,
This is a older version of blue.box when xmpp/gtalk module to the web GUI was not been developed. I am going to update freeSWITCHBOX appliance with the latest freeswitch and blue.box code.
Thanks
Gourav
XMPP seems to be missing
So a a distribution for calling and stuff? Through VoIP too? Great! I was looking forward to see something like this. @ ftw ftw ftw ftw hi hi hi hi ftw ftw ftw ftw hi hi hi hi @
Arg i didnt mean to say @ ftwftwftwftwhihihihiftwftwftwftwhihihi @
Congrats
grazman, this is a known issue and there is a ticket filed for it already at http://tickets.2600hz.org/browse/BLUEBOX-54
Started playing with 2.0.2 but get:
Fatal error: Class ‘sipdevices’ not found in /srv/www/htdocs/bluebox/modules/polycomdriver-1.0/plugins/polycom.php on line 102
that’s cool, I was looking for such an appliance!