On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 21:14:00 +0000 "Russell L. Harris" <[email protected]> wrote:
> At the moment, the Debian STABLE repository contains no Jitsi package. Actually, *no* official Debian repository currently contains Jitsi. It was removed in 2017, apparently due to QA issues, although I don't know the whole story: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=870990 > Inasmuch as I make it a rule never to install on my primary machine > Debian packages other than those which downloaded from the Debian > repository, I installed Debian on a spare machine, and installed on > that machine the Debian package from jitsi.org. jitsi worked nicely > for me. I spend some time today trying to find a libre alternative to Zoom, preferably one in the Debian repos, but came up empty. The closest I found were indeed Jitsi Meet (a part of the much larger Jitsi project), and BigBlueButton, libre but designed to be installed on a Ubuntu system. I'm actually puzzled by why there doesn't seem to be any easy, solid libre alternative to Zoom. Celejar
