(Having lost access to my previous e-mail account, due to a stupid error,
made during my recent experiments with trying to install Trisquel, and make
the nouveau driver run, on my main computer...) :P
After creating a new e-mail account on the Mail.ru service, today, and
exploring its different configuration options, again - where a video
conferencing software, that is part of it, can also be used - I came to know
of the existence of a Free Software client (for GNU/Linux, and that one can
install on his/her computer, instead of using the web-based client, on
his/her webmail account) for that same video conferencing network.
Not only that, but checking it's web page, I read something about an "open
protocol", that this network uses - http://mailruagent.sourceforge.net/.
(But, because where that term is used, in the description, the link just
sends us to the network's main web page, in Russian, I'm left with no more
information about it...)
The software, from what I can see here -
http://code.google.com/p/linux-agent/downloads/list - and, here -
http://code.google.com/p/frol9999-libs/downloads/list - seems to have binary
packages for Debian/Ubuntu. (So, they should run on Trisquel also...) But, I
can see the links to it's source code, also, on Sourceforge -
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mailruagent/.
I know there are already Free Software clients for video conferencing.
(Although, I don't know if there's any that uses an "open protocol".) And,
anti-social as I am, I don't use video conferencing software, and I have no
one with whom I would like to experiment this network with... :)
But, being this network part of the most used webmail service in Russia, I
suspect this network to be of a superior quality, compared to other(?) "open
protocol" ones... (At least, for the people using it in Russia. Since, if it
works in the same way as Skype, from what I know, it needs good P2P
connections to nearby nodes...)
Anyway...
I'm just leaving here this information so that those of you, who use video
conferencing, can know of the existence of this (Free Software, using an
"open protocol") client, and for anyone who wants to, to experiment with
this.
(If anyone does try it out, please leave here your impressions...) ;)
