Developer(s) | Sangoma Technologies Corporation |
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Final release | SNG7-PBX16-64bit-2302-1[1]
/ February 2023 |
Operating system | CentOS |
Predecessor | AsteriskNOW |
Available in | 22 languages |
List of languages | |
Type | Voice over IP softswitch |
License | AGPL v3 and GPL v3 |
Website | www |
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.