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Old 12-18-2005, 05:54 PM   #1
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YES! Video and Chat client coming for Linux!

Catch is - you have to use Google Chat

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,123433,00.asp
 
Old 12-18-2005, 07:18 PM   #2
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I'm moving this to the news section.
 
Old 12-19-2005, 11:26 AM   #3
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Er, where does it say anything about being linux-friendly? Google talk uses the Jabber protocol, so it is already compabile with gaim... that festoon client doesn't appear to have a linux version out, even though it does have video and audio (which gaim doesn't)

So where does linux come into this?
 
Old 12-19-2005, 02:53 PM   #4
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New version of SKYPE also has Video, Chat, File Transfer, conference, and the best voIP available.
 
Old 12-19-2005, 03:25 PM   #5
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ah, well I haven't used skype much (it wouldn't be far off to say I've used it at all), and I also forgot that skype has a linux client
 
Old 12-21-2005, 11:34 AM   #6
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Wengophone already brings video chat to linux. It works for me.
 
Old 12-21-2005, 04:22 PM   #7
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I know the first couple of LQ Radio was done on skype and they were having some issues on confrence type calls. I do not know about the video portion of skype.
 
Old 12-21-2005, 04:37 PM   #8
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The video is still in beta, It'll be in the next official release.
 
Old 12-21-2005, 04:41 PM   #9
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Right now, skype is a one call only affair since it won't free up the audio device after one call. The fact that it's OSS based doesn't make things any better
 
Old 12-28-2005, 04:50 PM   #10
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amsn has video for msn. no audio yet...
I use amsn for video and skype for audio together and it works great. Gaim and gaim-vv will eventually merge... I sure don't know when though...
 
Old 01-01-2006, 12:20 PM   #11
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Quote:
Originally Posted by shazam75
Catch is - you have to use Google Chat

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,123433,00.asp
What do you mean, "catch?" Google pwns.
 
Old 01-01-2006, 03:56 PM   #12
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what does pwns mean?
 
Old 01-01-2006, 03:59 PM   #13
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what does pwns mean?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pwn
 
Old 01-01-2006, 05:17 PM   #14
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Thumbs down
M$ is that one that PWNS!!!

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