Cross-Platform Video Chat For Linux?

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 11, 2008 @11:28AM from the would-be-nice dept.

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I haven't found a plugin for it that provides video, and Gaim-vv hasn't been developed in over two years and is so out of date that it's still going by Gaim and not Pidgin.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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Re:Real men chat in ascii by aliquis · 2008-09-11 12:08 · Score: 5, Funny

works ok if you look your best in ascii encoded video I guess ;)
Re:Ekiga by Anonymous Coward · 2008-09-11 12:20 · Score: 5, Funny

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Re:Ekiga by MarginalWatcher · 2008-09-11 12:27 · Score: 4, Funny

Are you sure it wasn't because they found themselves using an operating system designed by Microsoft?
How to run Kopete in Gnome by roystgnr · 2008-09-11 12:54 · Score: 4, Funny

Step 1: Run Kopete.
Glad I could help. Let me know if you have any more questions.
Re:Ekiga by diqmay · 2008-09-11 14:20 · Score: 3, Funny

and here I thought it had a rather nice ass.