Gnome Linux desktop: now with a voice
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The last release of the Gnome very popular Linux desktop is out. It’s called… Version 2.14. Awful name, hopefully, you don’t need to remember this. Among its new features, we spotted Ekiga, a project formerly known as Gnome Meeting. It’s the “the” VoIP client of the “open world” and now, whose current version 2.0 landed in the Gnome desktop.
With it, Linux users are nothing to envy to their Mac or Windows mates. In fact, it would be the opposite. Ekiga can make video or audio calls over the Internet, connect
to Google Talk clients, and others such as Jabbin orGizmo Project clients or Asterisk, a more and more popular VoIP network solution, but currently doesn’t support the XMPP protocol to link to GTalk.Now its features:
- Full SIP Support
- Full H.323 Support
- Audio and Video Support
- Call Transfer (SIP and H.323)
- Call Forwarding on Busy, No Answer, Always
- Call Hold
- DTMFs Support
- Basic Instant Messaging
- Ability to Register to Several SIP Accounts Simultaneously
- Possibility to Use an Outbound Proxy (SIP) or a Gateway (H.323)
- Message Waiting Indications (SIP)
- PC-to-Phone calls
Add to this some sweet functionalities that some proprietary or even open source softphone don’t provide. We talk about: Support for wideband codecs (16 kHz), echo cancellation, easier NAT traversal.
Even if it’s not the case right now, we used to work on Linux operating system, our heart goes for Gnome (sorry for KDE gurus). Gnome Meeting was part of our top list of software. If you want something really free, user-centric softphone, you should definitively try it. To download the Gnome 2.14 desktop, go here and for Ekiga, it’s here.
Mar 18, 2006 | By Nuno
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