Well as far as skype goes pc to pc calls are free and if you want to get unlimited pc to phone calls in the U.S and Canada you can pay about $2.50 a month. as far as a linux based console client I only know of one called linphone but don't know how hard it is to get working. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gaijin" <gaijin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 6:17 PM Subject: OT: VOIP clients for Windows and Linux? > Hello, > > I was wondering if there was still any old-fashioned, direct, > computer to computer VOIP clients out there that *don't* go through > some 3rd-party service like Skype, that will run on both Windows and > Linux, or at least Windows, so a friend can do some remote > troubleshooting of my WinXP box. I was hoping to just email or phone > this friend our IP numbers, input it into a simple VOIP client, and be > able to speak to each other while he troubleshoots my system. I only > have a cell phone, and the battery is only good for about an hour per > day, leaving me up the creek if I ever need to dial 911. All the client > needs to do is create a voice connection between two computers, without > any frils, IP to IP. We both can't afford 20-odd phone systems, just to > stay in touch, and everything out there now seems to require that > everything pass through some middle-man or service that now has to be > paid for. I'm wondering whatever happened to software like > see-you-see-mee, or whatever that video-chat program was called, that > was being used on IRC, or the old I-Phone software...wherever they went. > I'm looking for the cheapest, free voice communications software that > there is for Windows, and if possible, that will also work on Linux. > Any clues would be appreciated. TIA, > > Michael > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
