FreePBX Distro

FreePBX Distro

Developer(s)	Sangoma Technologies Corporation
Final release	SNG7-PBX16-64bit-2302-1[1] / February 2023 (1 year ago) (2023-02)
Operating system	CentOS
Predecessor	AsteriskNOW
Available in	22 languages
List of languages Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Czech, Chinese, English (US), English (UK), French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Persian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Type	Voice over IP softswitch
License	AGPL v3 and GPL v3
Website	www.freepbx.org/downloads/

The FreePBX Distro was a freeware unified communications software system that consisted of a graphical user interface (GUI) for configuring, controlling and managing Asterisk PBX software. The FreePBX Distro included packages that offer VoIP, PBX, Fax, IVR, voice-mail and email functions.

The FreePBX Distro Linux distribution was based on CentOS, which maintains binary compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. FreePBX has contributed to the popularity of Asterisk.^[2]

As a result of CentOS Linux being discontinued and the last version of CentOS 7 going out of support on June 30, 2024, FreePBX 17 has moved over to and is supported on Debian Linux. FreePBX will no longer be providing a pre-configured FreePBX Distro, but will provide a script to install FreePBX on a fresh install of Debian Linux. In-place migration will not be possible, but will be possible by restoring a backup on the new version from the previous version.^[3]

As FreePBX 16 will be supported until the release of FreePBX 18, FreePBX on this distribution will still work and be supported, however, there will be no further support for the underlying operating system.