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sean wrote: |
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> I am still using gaim, not moved over to what appears their new name |
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> Pidgin so I thought I would ask here for recommendations. |
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> |
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> I like the way gaim works, but I was wondering is there a package like |
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> gaim, and in portage that would also include some sort of video |
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> capabilities as well, and be cross platform? |
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> Thanks |
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> Sean |
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Well, when my gf went to Netherlands for 3 months we bought webcams and |
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headsets. (she uses windows and i use gentoo). We tried to use Kopete + |
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MSN messenger for video conferensing but that does not work well with |
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NAT and firewalls so we had to bury that option, after a few days of |
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googling around we found the 'best solution (imho)' to be wengophone. It |
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is an voip-software that handles multiple im-protocols and has its own |
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protocol for im (i think it only supports audio/video on its own |
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protocol, so you both need to use it). the video/audio quality was |
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actually quite excellent and we have been happily using it for a while. |
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So, i would recommend to test that even though that it is masked. |
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forums.gentoo.org also has few threads about it. |
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* net-voip/wengophone [ Masked ] |
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Latest version available: 2.2 |
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Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] |
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Size of files: 0 kB |
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Homepage: http://www.openwengo.org/ |
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Description: Wengophone NG is a VoIP client featuring the SIP |
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protocol |
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License: GPL-2 |
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* net-voip/wengophone-bin [ Masked ] |
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Latest version available: 2.1.2 |
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Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] |
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Size of files: 24,207 kB |
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Homepage: http://www.openwengo.org/ |
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Description: Wengophone NG is a VoIP client featuring the SIP |
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protocol |
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License: GPL-2 |
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tmh |
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