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Finally: PC-to-Phone Calling from Linux

Posted by timothy on from the that's-getting-very-slick dept.

Greg Herlein writes "There is finally a way to do direct PC to Phone calling from linux: GnomeMeeting now supports decent quality, low-cost VoIP calls to any real phone in the world. It's about time." The calls are through a company called MicroTelco; read this FAQ page to learn more about it. (And don't forget TheKompany's approach to IP-telephony-with-Linux, using a Sharp Zaurus plus Net2Phone.)

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  1. Nice if... by salimma · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ... your relatives and friends live in a country with decent network infrastructure.

    I have tried Net2Phone and various cheap calling cards and find that while it works calling, say, Singapore, calling Indonesia is another matter.

    Still, quite nice. Perhaps I'll start calling up people I know in the States :p

    Time to get a world clock set up on my desktop...

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    Michel
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  2. Re:Linux is still just a kernel. by lyoz · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Since the subject of this said phone calling from Linux i was thinking of some weird kernel patch.
    I agree...the title could have been better. However this doesnt change the fact that this is the first time any such application has been made for linux. The main idea is that Linux is becoming more and more *user-friendly* and its not only the console-based server-side operating system.
    Linux is the kernel, and only that.
    Linux is more than a kernell. It symbolysis a lot more than just-another operating sys.

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