Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: sky-w@××.ru
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] chatting with the customer
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 22:56:03
Message-Id: 429B25E7-54B6-44EE-B6C6-037ADBA1B775@bk.ru
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] chatting with the customer by "Stefan G. Weichinger"
1 On January 23, 2015 9:24:47 PM AEDT, "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@×××××.at> wrote:
2 >
3 >I communicate with an admin at a customer ...
4 >
5 >we write dozens of emails and tickets and often it would be simpler to
6 >have some kind of chat or so.
7 >
8 >I'd like to avoid skype etc ... so I think of installing something on
9 >one of their gentoo-servers that allows us to run a simple chat.
10 >
11 >I run (surprise) gentoo with Gnome 3.14 ... he runs Windows 7 or 8 ...
12 >
13 >What could I set up?
14 >
15 >Maybe useable with gnome empathy?
16 >With a simple windows-client for the other side?
17 >
18 >
19 >Any quick recommendations?
20 >
21 >Thanks, Stefan
22
23 You can try something like Tox: https://tox.im. It has clients both for Windows and Linux. For me it works fine. It's a p2p Skype analog.
24 Alex.