Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} open-source: chat, tasks, resources, code

[Michael Mol]

On Dec 18, 2012 6:33 AM, "Marc Joliet" <marcec@×××.de> wrote:
>
> Am Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:04:46 -0800
> schrieb Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>:
>
> [...]
> > > XMPP clients are a dime a dozen, take you pick: pidgin, kopete,
> > > telepathy and a hots of others.
> > >
> > > Servers are another story. All of them that you can lay your hands on
> > > seem to suck big eggs big time. ejabberd is the only one I found
> > > stable enough to actually stay up for sane amounts of time, and not
> > > DEPEND on java.
> > >
> > > But that info might be well out of date, I haven't looked at our
> > > jabber server for ages. There's no need to - the techies all
> > > gravitated by themselves over to GTalk and Skype, claiming that the
> > > cloud services did everything they needed and more, and it was there,
> > > and it worked. Our in-house jabber server - not so much.
> > >
> > > Can't say I blame them. It's true.
> >
> > Thanks Alan, this is just the kind of info I need.  It sounds like I
would
> > be better off with a cloud solution for collaborative chat.
>
> Just out of curiosity: why couldn't you use a Jabber client with
> Bonjour/Zeroconf support (all or most of them?) within the company (which
is
> what this is for IIUC)? With Zeroconf, the Jabber clients "find each
other",
> then you wouldn't need to bother with setting up a server.
>
> Or is Zeroconf problematic? I know Pidgin can do Zeroconf on Windows,
even if
> you need to manually install a separate package for it to work.

That only works within the same mdns domain, which usually means being on
the same Ethernet segment.

>
> --
> Marc Joliet
> --
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we
> don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup