Free, GNU, alternative to proprietary source Skype ?
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Any ideas and experience would help on this topic.
I prefer Discord, but other options include TOX, SLACK (the newer version include voice), Mumble, Signal, VIBER, Teamspeak, and Wire. I am sure that there are many others.
Since Discord and Mumble are designed to pair with games for online gaming they are very small, fast, and resource efficient so as not to slow the games down. This makes them uniquely valuable to someone like me.
Several of the XMMP clients now support voice, and group calling within the application. I cannot attest to the soound quality or lag time, but I read reports that it works. Hangouts (Google/Chrome) also has application here, but Google can change the features, split the project, or drop it entirely at will. (Something I consider the ONLY shortcoming to using Google app.)
Skype belongs to Microsoft, they are the OPPOSITE of open, and anything for Linux is an afterthought and often poorly done. (As opposed to Windows, Office, and Exchange, which are often well and elegantly done: for Microsoft though, perhaps not as well for the user.) I would expect a popular Open Source project to live longer and be more stable on Linux than skype.
Best of luck, and please: let us know what you try and about your experience! (And any problems, of course.)
WOuld you know a possible alternative that would be simple, and straightforward, supported on most distros ?
Stutter much?
Your repo should have Mumble, Twinkle, and sflphone.
You can learn about installing discord at https://discordapp.com
You can download and install RING from https://ring.cx
You can download TOX from https://tox.chat
Blink is another SIP client. Though I'm mostly using Jisti these days. Once you upgrade to SIP you have your choice of clients since they all can connect to each other.
Your repo should have Mumble, Twinkle, and sflphone.
You can learn about installing discord at https://discordapp.com
You can download and install RING from https://ring.cx
You can download TOX from https://tox.chat
I hope that helps^3.
I would be pleased that it would be easy to install for my friends, running Fedora, Ubuntu and Slackware. I couldn't find much way which is easy to install out of the box, without complicated installation (not for me )
burk python.
Code:
ratul# apt-get install blink -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
blink : Depends: libvncclient0 (>= 0.9.9) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python-application (>= 2.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python-cjson but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python-enum34 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python-eventlib but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python-googleapi (>= 1.5.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python-lxml but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python-oauth2client but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python-pyqt5 but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python-pyqt5.qtsvg but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python-pyqt5.qtwebkit but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python-sipsimple (>= 3.1.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python-twisted-core but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python-zope.interface but it is not going to be installed
Depends: x11vnc but it is not going to be installed
Code:
apt-cache search twinkle
xeratul@linux:~$
Libre/free opensource software would be great.
I don't run non-free applications. Sorry, this is a principle against non free, proprietary, softwares.
I won't. I can't run non-free softwares. I can't do that. no way.
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