Stefan Schweizer

Freedom, Peace, Amity

03/25/06 10:45 , Categories: Gentoo

Ekiga is a shiny new VoIP-application. The successor of old gnomemeeting featuring SIP-Support and much more. The name has been changed for a reason: to show that it is not only for gnome. And as you can see on the screenshot I am using kde with ekiga and it works perfectly.

It is one of the best open source VoIP applications out there, although in my opinion skype has still the better audio quality. But if you want to use open standards like SIP or H323 then ekiga is for you. You can also try another voip client application for linux, some are not in portage yet:
closed source:
skype, gizmo, x-lite
open source:
ekiga, wengophone, linphone, kphone, psi-jingle

As ekiga is included in gnome-2.14 it was originally masked but I unmasked it today because it does not depend on any other gnome-2.14 components. Please test it and help me to make the ebuild as good as possible.

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Comment from: Leonardo S. R. [Visitor] · http://www.mailinator.com

Another good open source option is Tapioca

2006.03.21-Tapioca 0.3.0 Has Been Released!!!

This new Release includes:

* Full Interoperability with GoogleTalk.
* Completelly rewritten architecture, now more extensible
* D-Bus introspection and activation
* NAT traversal support
* Presence
* Server-side Contact List
* Python bindings (C# bindings comming soon)
* A lot of bugfixes and enhacements

03/25/06 @ 13:18

Comment from: dano [Visitor]

Why is openldap a dependency of ekiga?

04/01/06 @ 12:27

Comment from: TheBonsai [Visitor]

Ekiga queries LDAP and ILS servers (ILS is just a Miscrosoft rape of a normal LDAP directory) in the addressbook. That's why OpenLDAP is a dependancy.

04/12/06 @ 07:55

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