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From: Stratos Psomadakis <el05007@×××××××××.gr>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] IM Software
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:25:59
Message-Id: 46635BC4.8060304@mail.ntua.gr
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop] IM Software by sean
1 O/H sean έγραψε:
2 > Stratos Psomadakis wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >>>> Short answer: No. Slightly longer answer: check out ekiga. It intends
6 >>>> to be what you want, but isn't fully there yet. It may be good enough
7 >>>> for your purposes, tho, depending on what your needs are.
8 >>>>
9 >>>> Daniel
10 >>>>
11 >
12 >
13 >>>
14 >>>
15 >> i would recommend ekiga,since it's open source,while skype isn't...
16 >>
17 >> ps: i tried pidgin and i think it's a lot better than gaim...at least
18 >> the support for the msn protocol has improved significantly...give it a
19 >> try... ;)
20 >>
21 >
22 > Thanks all, I will look over ekiga, and perhaps update to pidgin, though
23 > it is still masked for amd64.
24 >
25 > Recommend a webcam?
26 >
27 a bit offtopic but,if you have the stable gaim version(1.5),then pidgin
28 is a loooooooooooooot better...
29 although it is mask,there don't seem to be stability problems...
30
31 about the webcam,with some googling you can find some useful information
32 about supported webcams in linux...
33 perhaps,you can take a look here : http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca5xx.html
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