RE: RPMs for Mandrake

[Rich Bodo]

>         The man at the booth (whom was there when the show opened
right at 10am on Tuesday), showed me how he was able to write scripts,
and had a set of scripts able to operate as a crude voice mail, and
said I could roll my own voice mail machine. To that end, he started
to talk about all these pieces or different software products (Bayonne
was one), which needed to be installed.

Bayonne is really the only piece that needs to be installed if you
just want a voicemail system.

>He then assured me, its okay though, if you download and install the GNUComm 
>RPM you will get everything you need in one place, in one package, and it 
>comes with Mandrake 8.0 he said! I use Mandrake 8.0, and spent hours on the 
>net and reviewing CDs trying to locate this stuff, so I got rather annoyed by 
>the time I got to you.

Well, he was wrong about the GNUComm RPM's for sure.  There very well
may be Bayonne RPM's in Mandrake 8.0, but judging from your
experience, I tend to doubt that even that is the case.  I do see
Mandrake RPM's of Bayonne on google, but I don't use them.  Maybe
those are from third parties or for different versions of Mandrake.
Let's have a look at those google links.  O.k., this appears ot be a
mandrake 8.0 rpm:

ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake/8.0/contrib/i586/bayonne-0.5.12-1mdk.i586.rpm

It's a slightly older version of Bayonne, but it might meet your needs.

>
>         At the risk of sounding insulting (and I am not intending too), I 
> don't think that the way GNUComm is structured right now, its going to be 
> very easy to implement, but I hope I am wrong.
>

No offense taken.  I hope GNUComm will be very challenging.  I would
say ten years from now we may have accomplished everything we set out
to, but that design will probably bear little resemblance to the
current design.

>         The software he spoke of said would now support lucent linmodems, and 
> was encompassing parts of Bayonne.
>

There is no support for linmodems right now, but we are working on
it.  We would very much like to support linmodems.

>         From your last replies, it seems that setting up a voice mail machine 
> is quite difficult, so for the moment I will investigate other solutions. 
> However, I do appreciate your time and efforts, and I hope one day there is a 
> real communications system for Linux, which is powerful and easy to install 
> and use.
>

A simple play and record type script is trivial, once you get bayonne
set up.  An average multi-user voicemail system with the standard
complement of features is definitely non-trivial.

There are a number of other projects out there that support modems.
You might try a search on "mgetty and vgetty" on google to see if that
project will meet your needs.

-Rich