gonesouth

just thinking about Asterisk, and its descendant system trixbox. I went to the homepages pages and watched the tutorials, but they assume a certain basic knowledge of how to connect things - for example my first question is how does such a system connect to the phone company lines?

Is there where I could ask that kind of stupid question without annoying people?

If so, I understand that it uses a Linux box, and connects via the net where possible, but to talk to the other half of the world, what else do I need? When you're answering I need things at the level of (describing a computer) main computer box, monitor, keyboard and mouse, operating system and software. I understand that I need a computer I can dedicate to this, and a broadband connection, but what else?

thanks. I hope i was clear.

Jim