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Ekiga 2.0 Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the truly-free-speech dept.

Some Anonymous Coward writes "After about one year of development the former GnomeMeeting team has released Ekiga. Ekiga is the successor of the popular GnomeMeeting. Ekiga calls itself the very "first Open Source application to support both H.323 and SIP". Ekiga is based on the h323/sip codebase, provided by the openh323 project. Also introduced with this release is ekiga.net, a platform to provide the community with free sip addresses."

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  1. From the Article by Orrin+Bloquy · · Score: 5, Funny

    "As soon as we were able to confirm that 'ekiga' is not Japanese for Happy Fun Tentacle Rape Time, it was a go."

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    1. Re:From the Article by ceeam · · Score: 4, Funny

      I check my dictionary and the closest is "ekika". Meaning "armpit". FYI.

  2. Onomotopoea? by Philip+K+Dickhead · · Score: 3, Funny

    C'mon! "Ekiga?" Is that the sound of a penguin expectorating?

    I can deal with some odd-ball names. Heck, I run "Ubuntu" with Gnome and "Sylpheed". But Ekiga - It's not really "Skype" or "Gizmo", is it?

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  3. Re:Ekiga? What the hell is an Ekiga? by jacksonj04 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bet she gets strange looks putting that on official forms. If it a common foreign name, or the product of people who call their child things like "Vagina" (The USA currently has 2 Vaginas on the census, interpret how thou wilt).

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  4. Re:Ekiga? What the hell is an Ekiga? by milgr · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope that his next girlfriend has a better name. Maybe something like gvideoconference.

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  5. Re:Ready? by diegocgteleline.es · · Score: 1, Funny

    ass and breasts in high res

    Could you change your sig? For some reason I don't continue reading the rest of the commentaries after seeing it.

  6. Gekiga - 'Dramatic Pictures' by digitaldc · · Score: 2, Funny

    C'mon! "Ekiga?" Is that the sound of a penguin expectorating?

    Only if you show it drawn by a Japanese person in the 'dramatic' style.

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  7. Re:Ekiga? What the hell is an Ekiga? by amias · · Score: 2, Funny

    I believed you right up to the phrase 'primary coders girlfriend'.

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  8. Re:ANYTHING has to be better... by SnowZero · · Score: 2, Funny

    With that kind of "lateral thinking", it's obvious that Ekiga stands for "telekinesis gathering".

    Or maybe both names suck. I doubt the average office worker would pick up on the "cel" thing, especially since a cel is something completely different than a cell. Maybe Excel is an animation package? Why didn't they call it Excell to be more clear? Of course given how bad spelling is nowadays, maybe nobody would notice.