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Cross-Platform Video Chat For Linux?
Ethan1701 writes "Some of my friends are using iChat to stay in touch and gap the distance of the Atlantic. I'm feeling left out on my Fedora Gnome based desktop. Is there a good program for Gnome that provides cross-platform instant messaging and video chat? This rules out Skype and aMSN, as well as any other app that's specific for the ICQ/AOL Network. Kopete is for KDE. Pidgin doesn't intend to develop video-chat, I haven't found a plugin for it that provides video, and Gaim-vv hasn't been developed in over two years and is so out of date that it's still going by Gaim and not Pidgin. Do Slashdot readers have an application that meets these needs? Maybe even one that surpasses iChat?"
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Use Kopete anyways? It won't kill you. Loading the libraries for both UI tool kits wont make your computer explode.
Just because an idea is popular doesn't make it right.
works ok if you look your best in ascii encoded video I guess ;)
Yeah but does it work with a black eeepc?
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Are you sure it wasn't because they found themselves using an operating system designed by Microsoft?
Give the kid a break. He used a car analogy and everything. He's been doing his homework.
Step 1: Run Kopete.
Glad I could help. Let me know if you have any more questions.
Could be, I guess friends shouldn't let friends use windows!
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Have gnu, will travel.
No idea, but works quite well with the white one. chuckle
and here I thought it had a rather nice ass.