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Industry-Standard VOIP Phone Using All Free Software

Posted by timothy on from the excellent-news dept.

Ralf Ackermann writes: "Voice over IP on a HardPhone running Linux and just using Open Source software became real. We have sucessfully installed and tested (interoperability with Cisco 7960 as well as Pingtel xPressa in an environment with a partysip SIP registrar and proxy) the linphone SIP phone on a StrongARM based TuxScreen. Here is the link describing the steps for others to use the setup as well: TuxScreen running SIP. All the infos for setting up a comparable installation can be found on the URL, please also feel free to ask or drop opinions. Many thanks to the linphone developers as well as to my student Florian Winterstein (for working on a console linphonec version). The setup (on a StrongARM system) is well suited for PDA (iPAQ) or wearable environments as well."

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  1. Xeyes by exceed · · Score: 3, Funny

    They just -had- to include the Xeyes in the screenshot.

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    void women (int money, time_t time);
    1. Re:Xeyes by Joe+Kellner · · Score: 2, Funny

      Of course, xeyes is the industry standard important killer app for X.

  2. Civil rights restored? by heretic108 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just mix in a few 1000 digit primes.
    Chop fish into 128 pieces, add and blow.
    Simmer and stir, and allow 1-3 secs for CPU to cool.
    Talk when done.

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    -- In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was UNSIGNED, and the main(){} was without form and void...
  3. Re:The next step by mosch · · Score: 2, Funny
    yes, i will gladly create software for undocumented proprietary devices which weren't neccessarily designed to be able to reproduce speech, for free!

    but first, watch me play with myself live, at autopr0n.com.

  4. Re:What about SNOM? by glitch! · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Hey, Pinkie! Are you pondering what I'm pondering?"

    "Well, I think so, Brain. But how can we launch a VoIP phone directory with just a couple of servers and a database? I mean (NARF!) even before we add the public key fingerprints and web-of-trust links, we are talking about gigabytes! And we're just a couple of mice!"

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    A dingo ate my sig...
  5. Re:Why so low market penetration? by PacoTaco · · Score: 2, Funny
    I do not understand why IP phones
    a) have so low market penetration

    All of those Netware users are still waiting for VoIPX.

  6. Re:Why so low market penetration? by rjch · · Score: 3, Funny

    Unfortunately, the reason is all too clear.

    a) VoIP phones have such a low market penetration because...
    b) VoIP phones cost so much because...
    a) VoIP phones have such a low market penetration because...
    b) VoIP phones cost so much because...
    a) VoIP phones have such a low market penetration because...
    b) VoIP phones cost so much because...
    a) VoIP phones have such a low market penetration because...
    b) VoIP phones cost so much because...

    ...and so on and so forth...