On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 10:23:08 +0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Monday 20 March 2006 09:38, Adam Bogacki wrote: > > Skype ? Nah, dull and boring. > > > > apt-get install gizmo > > > > ... which can be encrypted with Zimmerman's newly released > > VOiP version of peer-to-peer Zfone. > > > > Gizmo is also more colourful, functional, etc. > > Adam > vodafone ran an ad for people just like me: They advertized a mobile > that ... makes phone calls. The End. > Likewise skype. I don't call in, call out (whatever the marketing > terminology is), I go click and talk to someone on the other side of > the world, who may be doing winders, linux or friends. The End. > > Soo "dull and boring" is perfect. My hastle is no AMD64 support. The > alternatives I've looked at don't compute: > > eg gizmo - I need to build for my hardware (no suse-9 rpms), in 2004 > they said API and src comming. long wait ....
But you don't need the Gizmo software to talk to Gizmo clients. **ANY** SIP phone (and there are at least a half a dozen ones for linux) will work. > > So none of the suggestions offered here have met the need of skype's > ease of use, nat/firewall hastle free, easily installable, setup > able, by eg aged parents on the other side of the world, or friends > with winders, etc as well as me and my technical circle too. The Gizmo client is all of these things on a Windows box. Cheers, Alan > > Still looking ... > James > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 428 148 071 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 FWD: 615662 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
