Asterisk@Home concerns it around a certain server which contain special Linux distributions. Since 2006 there is not this programme in the present manner any more. Till then it was liked very much, because it concerned free software which gave the possibility of the distribution and to the other a phone attachment beinhaltete to one. This accepted to many people. In the meantime, entwickelte to itself the system Trixbox, which the same things beinhaltete. What did not very feel well with Asterisk@Home, was the fact that the programme cannot be developed. One designated it, therefore, so-called monolith what means so much, how from a part manufactured. This made difficult to improve something in the system or to develop. Furthermore it has so been that the timing was very bad. The executions lasted partially very long. This deterred many users, which is why the programme was not bought in the future so often. With the version AstLinux it was a matter above all of booking so little storage space as possible. This very makes sense in itself. In the meantime, there is a new version which is used over and over again with pleasure. This is due to the fact not only that the storage space is spared, but also at the fact that one receives the version free of charge. Another advantage is that that also the phone attachment connencted with it is made available free of charge what accepts to many customers very much.

The programm was conceived above all for enterprise which unwind a lot of things by telephone. Thus the software supports different linguistic services. Also phone conferences can be simply organised by means of this programme and be carried out. Furthermore it is possible to get additional software which serves for the speech recognition. Also this can absolutely have his advantages. Different things can be fixed what makes the work routine much easier. For example, the user has to set the possibility where a caller should be escorted. Furthermore it is possible to set near which answering machine saved talks should be forwarded. For many enterprises this programme is a real enrichment. The configuration of the programmes is very simply formed. Even somebody who knows not necessarily a lot with such a thing will be able to put together without problems the programmes kunfigurieren and thus, as desired. The developer of this system which is anxious above all to bring all phone-customary applications under a hat is a mark of Spencer. It concerns with this man a computer engineer, the time of his life lives in the USA. Beside Asterisk he also developed the programmes Gaim and L2TP.
The derzeitge version of this Asterisk programme is the version Asterisk 1.4.21. The condition to the use Asterisks is the operating system Unix derivatives.

Without this system the programme cannot be begun. Around the software use to düfen, one needs the GNU and the licence GPL. Without this the use would be unlawful. A disadvantage of this programme is that that it is not written in the German what makes it above all to many Germans much more difficult. The knowledge of English of many people is not simply sufficient to understand what demands the programme. One can download the programme on the Internet site Asterisk.org.