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I haven't found a plugin for it that provides video, and Gaim-vv hasn't been developed in over two years and is so out of date that it's still going by Gaim and not Pidgin.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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The Kludge by Supp0rtLinux · 2008-09-11 11:32 · Score: 1, Troll

You could always RDP or VNC to your Windows box running Trillian or a Mac running iChat. There's also VMWare or xVM (VirtualBox). Not pretty, but would work... and I think I recall at least some version of Trillian being pretty stable with WINE.