On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 at 09:57, John Mellor <john.mel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> In this extended period of Covid-19 isolation, is there a > videoconference package available? > Ekiga <https://www.ekiga.org/> was previous Gnome Meetings: Available Packages Name : ekiga Version : 4.0.1 Release : 46.fc31 Architecture : x86_64 Size : 8.5 M Source : ekiga-4.0.1-46.fc31.src.rpm Repository : fedora Summary : A Gnome based SIP/H323 teleconferencing application URL : https://www.ekiga.org/ License : GPLv2+ Description : Ekiga is a tool to communicate with video and audio over the : internet. It uses the standard SIP and H323 protocols. I've never used Ekiga as my video conferences have all had macOS or Windows participants. > > Hosted systems like Zoom are not opensource, do not use a browser as a > client, feed connection data to Facebook, only allow 2 participants for > free, and not available for a local install. > Zoom says they have fixed the Facebook data leak. <https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3b745/zoom-removes-code-that-sends-data-to-facebook> > > I thought of Webex, but its Cisco. Maybe its just me :-) > > I took a quick look at Jitsi, but users say it has a fatal extreme > processor utilization bug, the rpm packages are 3 years out-of-date, and > does not seem to be present in the normal rpm repos. > > I also took a quick look at BigBlueButtion, which looks pretty good. > However, it only runs on an ancient version of Ubuntu, and uses a shell > installer for some unknown reason. > > This seems like a major application type that appears to be completely > missing from the repos. Is anyone building one, and just hasn't > announced it yet? > Skype now has a linux version. -- George N. White III
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