Original author(s) | Coalescent Systems Schmooze Com Inc |
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Developer(s) | FreePBX Project Sangoma Technologies Corporation |
Initial release | October 15, 2004 |
Stable release | 17 [1]
/ August 2, 2024 |
Repository | |
Operating system | Debian Linux (officially supported), Linux, FreeBSD |
Platform | PHP, JavaScript, Shell script |
Predecessor | Asterisk Management Portal (AMP) |
Available in | 22 languages |
List of languages | |
License | AGPL v3 and GPL v3 |
Website | www |
FreePBX is a web-based open-source graphical user interface (GUI) that manages Asterisk, a voice over IP (VoIP) and telephony server.[2]
FreePBX is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3,[3] with commercial modules available under their own licenses.
FreePBX is a component of the now discontinued FreePBX Distro, released by the FreePBX project, which was a maintained Linux system derived from the source code of the CentOS distribution with all components needed, including Asterisk, pre-installed and released as a turnkey distribution.
FreePBX is included in other open source distributions such as AsteriskNOW, Elastix and RasPBX. PBXact is a commercially supported offering from Sangoma that is based on FreePBX.
FreePBX is maintained by a community of developers and contributors using the GitHub platform.[4] The slogan for FreePBX is "Let Freedom Ring". The mascot for FreePBX, as seen in the logo, is Tango the frog.[5]
FreePBX, the juggernaut of the Asterisk community. This interface (which is at the heart of many of the most popular Asterisk distributions, such as AsteriskNOW, Elastix, the FreePBX Distro, and PBX in a Flash), is unarguably a very large part of why Asterisk has been as successful as it has. With the FreePBX interface, you can configure and manage many aspects of an Asterisk system without touching a single configuration file. While we purists may like everyone to work only with the config files, we recognize that for many, learning Linux and editing these files by hand is simply not going to happen. For those folks, there is FreePBX, and it has our respect for the important contributions it has made to the success of Asterisk.