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PhoneGaim Brings Phone Calling To IM Users
An anonymous reader writes "Eweek has an article on how PhoneGaim integrates IM and phone into one program making it possible for AOL/ICQ, MSN and Yahoo users to call each other, landlines and cellphones. It talks about how it could be a Skype-killer since it's based on open standard SIP and comes with free PSTN calling (5 minutes per day), free voicemail via email, and even supports incoming phone calls from PSTN. It's out first for desktop Linux (maybe the start of a new trend?) but it's open source so expect a MSWin version shortly from Gaim team."
This week BT/Yahoo announced an upgraded yahoo messenger product that does the same, however pc->phone connects are billed to users landline account. PC->PC are free, International charged at destination countries local rates.
Looks like you're building from source. http://software.linspire.com/emptypool//lindowsos/ pool/main/g/gaim/gaim_0.79-1.0.0.45.lindows0.5.tar .gz
You can do this now. Asterix makes a good PBX you just and outward and inward facing physical lines as you desire more inside extensiuons (Groups of phones) and outside lines. The cards are a few hundred and it needs a modest PC to run everything. Pretty much you can add any type of extension be it VoIP or POTS and any type of outside line be it VoIP POTS ISDN or a PRI. You can implment outgoing dial plans so that long distance is autmoticaly routed to the VoIP with fallback to land lines etc etc etc. Right now I run my house with these (it helps that I baught a small pile of dirt cheap Diamond USB attached inside POTS lines) every phone is it's own extension and I have POTS and VoIP external lines.
No sir I dont like it.
unless/until somebody develops a SIP IM client for linux...
Does a java client cut it?
SCO employee? Check out the bounty
Yes you can actualy. Vonage is a standards based VoIP service you just need to know where to point your VoIP endpoint to register put in the password (Hard to get unless it's a softphone account) I currently run Vonage through an Asterix PBX it's not that hard to get working. Hit up google for the particulars.
No sir I dont like it.
A more detailed look (or a look at all, actually) will reveal that they have a SIP handset available for $19.95 US via sipphone.com.
Note that skype, while a cooky closed-source, non-standard product, does have good support for using it behind NAT, which is harder with SIP.
A VOIP protocol that plays nice with NAT would be a beautiful thing. Asterisk's native AIX protocol will go through NAT but I'm not aware of anything else using it, and there's a patch for H323, but nothing for SIP :-(.
For vonage the instructions are here while for Packet8 it's here.
You misread the site indeed. It works everywhere, just grab the source and compile it. Or wait for someone to provide RPMs/DEBs/ebuilds.
PhoneGaim is Free Software (GPL).
theefer
If it indeed uses SIP, then it will work (eventually), that's the whole point of an open standard.
is it just me, or is the icon for PhoneGaim just a complete rip-off of the iChat AV icon on Mac OS X.
I can't get excited about this PhoneGaim as I already use a SIP phone client as well as iChat AV.
I expect Apple to add voicemail in the next version anyway. It's been touted in many of the forums I read already.
with terminating POTS service hung on the back of it.
see http://gaim-vv.sourceforge.net/
in fact... its more than just open source. its *free software8 and is distributed under the GPL. sweet! (remember... not all "open source" software is free, it simply means the source code is viewable; like java.)
www.asterisk.org - I haven't looked to see is it has the ability to do the toll by-pass you are asking for, but I know a couple of Cisco routers can do it. Software PBX, analog/digital/VOIP phones mix and a toll by-pass link between the two sites with a dial plan should do it.
Which distro does Linus use?
You could do that by creating a Jabberaccont, adding AIM to it, and download a Jabberclient for the phone (it's a lot of them, try jabber.org)
Spelling/grammar nazis welcome (English is not my first language and I am trying to improve my spelling/grammar)
The full quote is: "Available immediately. Exclusively for Linspire, PhoneGaim can be downloaded and installed with one-click," meaning that Linspire's exclusive "thing" is the 1-click installation. Whether it's really one click or not, and whether that'll actually be exclusive once RPMs come out, is another question. Misleading, but I think you misinterpreted it.
We didn't write this, despite Slashdot's very screwed-up information about all this.
You're not the only person hitting that MSN bug, but it's something that not a lot of people (and no developer, as far as I know) has been able to hit. We're looking into it.
Cooperative Linux is the first working free and open source method for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively. More generally, Cooperative Linux (short-named coLinux) is a port of the Linux kernel that allows it to run cooperatively alongside another operating system on a single machine.
gaim-vv supports voice and video msn and yahoo protocols. The msn one is based on sip.
Ok, so it's not as bad as h.323, but SIP is not
firewall-friendly -- Skype is.
We should make it talk IAX2.
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