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Cross-Platform VoIP Software?

Posted by timothy on from the triplatform-at-least dept.

feilkin writes "With the release of Skype's Linux client, I'm wondering about alternatives. Namely, cross-platform solutions for voice communication. I've got friends who are using Windows, Linux and OSX, and I'm hoping that there is a way to communicate with all of them. I myself am using Linux, and I haven't been able to find any solutions that seem fitting to my situation completely. Does anyone have a solution that'll be useful on all three platforms, or solutions that may be coming in the near future?"

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  1. Is this an advertisement for Skype by McDiesel · · Score: 0, Troll

    What a coincidence- Skype releases on Linux on June 21, and someone posts a "question" about alternative VOIP- but the "question" is a thinly disguised publicity announcement of Skype on Linux. Is feilkin somehow associated with Skype?

  2. Re:Ohh Slashdot! by telstar · · Score: 1, Troll
    "Oh Slashdot, in this story, you have not provided any external web-sites but only yours....So I am anxious to see whether Slashdot will itself be slashdotted!"
    • You forgot ... Real Slashdot readers don't read the articles.

  3. Re:err...Yes Skype by Sleetan · · Score: 0, Troll

    No kidding. A friend and I played around with it in the same room.

    The lag-latency was null and void.

    I was using a 1 ear headset and between it and him it was almost stereo.

  4. Re:FP? by sigaar · · Score: 0, Troll

    Troll? This was a rather funny comment about that Windows Administrator who installed 9 linux distros (and did Gentoo two or three times as well) in 2 days and couldn't get his sound going.

    9 Distros plus Gentoo twice in two days. I wan't whatever hardware he's got...

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    sigaar