-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:35:09 +0400 schrieb the <the.gu...@mail.ru>:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/20/13 19:12, Randy Westlund wrote: > > For a multitude of reasons, I'd like to get rid of skype. I've > > heard several people mention jitsi, but was surprised to find that > > it's not in the portage tree. > > > > Is jitsi being actively maintained in an overlay somewhere? Are > > there plans to put jitsi in the main tree? > > > > Are there other other good alternatives to skype that are supported > > on gentoo? What do you guys use? > > Bear in mind that there's no free replacement for skype. Heise (used to be "The H" in English) recently mentioned Tox: http://tox.im/. If you can read German (or even if you can't, just to check the links), their articles are: http://www.heise.de/open/meldung/Skype-Alternative-Tox-einfach-verschluesselt-dezentral-1926996.html http://www.heise.de/open/meldung/Skype-Alternative-Tox-zum-Ausprobieren-1929033.html However, it's a very new project and the status is AFAIU "you can try it, but don't rely on it just yet". Looking at the build instructions, a Gentoo ebuild ought to be be fairly easy. Oh, and not to mention Mumble, which it seems more and more people are using instead of Skype in the specific situations where it makes sense (conference calls and such). HTH - -- Marc Joliet - -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlIUicEACgkQBsMBz3L8+WOkdQCfV8dGgEiW9liRqyKrl3PK8Pkt wyQAn1LDpPmOKc0JUXBL+6uU8tRPNVm+ =qR3j -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
