VOIP clients for Windows and Linux?

[Nick Stockton]

hmmm does fwd have unlimited pc to phone in the U.S?
I'll look at their site again.
Not used them or any other voip services in a couple of years now.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: VOIP clients for Windows and Linux?


> Skype is a proprietary protocol. In other words, it has a license that
> makes most of us rather ill. Therefore, I don't believe you'll find it
> supported by linphone or twinkle.
>
> If you want low cost, you can look at Free World Dialup or Ekiga. But,
> you should forget Skype.
>
> Janina
>
> Nick Stockton writes:
>> 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 at clearwire.net>
>> 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
>> >
>> >
>> >
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