Re: About Ekiga.net

Le lundi 30 mars 2015 à 14:38 +0800, Bret Busby a écrit :


> "
> Unknown error
> 
> When connecting to: http://www.ekiga.org
> "
> 


It works here. That is wierd. Does it work with any other browser ?


> so I can not find what is the latest "stable" version of Ekiga, as
> according to the ekiga project web site.
> 


The latest stable release is 4.0.1. 3.x is very very very old (4 or 5
years old actually).


> In 2013, was, I believe, the last time that I had tried to get Ekiga 
> working on this computer.
> 
> The version of Ekiga that is installed on this (Debian 6 LTS) computer, 
> appears unchanged from when I used it, and, posted messages to this 
> list, about it, in 2013.
> 
> I had tried Ekiga and Linphone, and could not get either working - I 
> believe that the mailing list archives, should show the results. I 
> correct that - in having looked through some of my messages posted to 
> this list, in 2013, I had got the voice component working, for calls, 
> but, not the video component, so, I had not been able to get ekiga 
> working for videocalling.
> 
> I had been able to get skype working, but microsoft took over skype, 
> and, sabotaged it, I believe, last year.
> 
> The only videocalling software that I had been able to get working, on 
> Linux, was skype v 2.2 beta (the full version umber, is in the list 
> archives, in messages that I posted about it, in 2013) which worked well 
> enough, and, was relatively good, until microsoft sabotaged it.
> 
> Without knowing where ekiga is located (in which country/region), I do 
> not know whether applicable laws, would allow for the reverse 
> engineering of skype 2.2 beta, so as to get that operational again, or, 
> whether the ekiga project people, would be inclined to do that, even if 
> it was legal.
> 
> But, at present, I do not have access to any operational videocalling 
> software, that works on Linux.

We really need to improve things !


-- 
Damien SANDRAS

Ekiga Project 
http://www.ekiga.org

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