On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 14:07, Ken Schneider - openSUSE
There's also GoogleVoice, perhaps also only in the USA, that can be used to place calls to landlines, domestic and international.
Yup, USA only (for now) for the Google Voice feature. I can make VoIP calls from the browser client (I just tested it and I could call my non-US mobile from a non-US location/account)... which is fine if I choose to remain in my GMail account all day long... but I've got other family members using the home PC. With Skype and Ekiga, the soft phone is a communal tool.. anyone can just pop open Skype or Ekiga and make a call... Using Gtalk... it's not an option because I'm not leaving a browser page open all the time to be able to make and receive calls. The dedicated GTalk client is not available for Linux, and last I checked fails in interesting ways when you try to make it work in Wine. So... while GTalk is a nice idea, it's impractical on Linux... unless they make a dedicated Linux client... and even then with it so closely tied to private GMail accounts, it's hard to justify on a multi-user family computer. Ekiga works very well with external VoIP providers.. but you lose out on the IM part. It'll be painful if/when Microsoft kills the Linux side of Skype. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org