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Google Eliminates Gizmo5 Client For Linux

Posted by kdawson on from the poor-relation dept.

cuttheredwire writes "Evidence on the Gizmo5 forum (login required) confirms that since Google's takeover of Gizmo5, only the Windows, Mac, and iPhone clients are available for download from the official Web page. The Linux download link no longer works. This is a potential problem for happy Linux users with paid-up credit in their Gizmo5 accounts if they need to reinstall the software. A back-door download is still available, although it is speculated on the forums that it will go away soon. Does this mean that (as with other Google projects such as Google Talk) Linux will be the poor relation for Google Voice also?"

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  1. Chrome OS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Since Google is busy on its own linux-based Chrome OS, I would be surprised if they weren't planning on providing a linux client anytime soon. My guess would be that they're making a linux client to ship with ChromeOS that is kickass, compared to the Gizmo5 builds of windows/mac.

    1. Re:Chrome OS? by johnsie · · Score: 5, Insightful

      ChromeOS is the ultimate spyware

  2. Mindless panic as usual by cybereal · · Score: 5, Informative

    Gizmo, entirely unlike Skype, is based on standard SIP interfaces. You don't need their proprietary client to use the service.

    Just pick your favorite SIP client, preferably with a lot of codecs and STUN support, and get on with your day.

    Panic over!

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  3. Re:Time to learn a lesson about Linux support by clang_jangle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or you know, maybe Google just feels that there is no pressing need for them to provide their own client merely to use a service which employs an open protocol to which any *nix user already has easy access.

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  4. Re:Are you sure? by clang_jangle · · Score: 5, Funny

    So are you saying that the real story here is that one Linux user decided to install it while the server was momentarily down, freaked out and wrote a panic-mode slashdot submission which was then published to the front page with zero fact checking?

    Why, that's just shocking! :D

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  5. Re:Protest this. by gabebear · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm very confused... I've been using Gizmo for years and there has never been an official iPhone client, and the best thing about Gizmo is that it uses REAL SIP, so it works with any standard SIP client(unlike Skype).