[HLUG] Voice chat for AIM

[Julian Robbins]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:01:16 +0100, "Jeff Tupholme"
<jeff at repositive.com> said:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been using voice chat on the Mac as an alternative to phone calls  
> with family members. The OS X iChat client is compatible with AIM (AOL  
> Instant Messenger) and I'd like to set up my Ubuntu 8.04 laptop  
> installation to work with it also. However, the two 'main' clients -  
> Pidgin and Empathy - don't support voice on AIM, and I've been unable  
> to identify anything else that does. The official AOL Linux client is  
> very old and appears to lack all but the most basic text chat features.
> 
> Any suggestions, please?

Hi Jeff, hope you are well.

I looked into using Empathy the other day, and although it does offer
video and voice chat , its only jabber based at present. but they do say
that other plugins will follow soon. So you may want to check if there
is a PPA for this package to allow you to use a newer version than in
8.04. 

On, another matter, I will be in London on Sat at the Linux Expo, so if
you're around it would be nice to catch up. I'll be going on the train,
so if any others are going, please contact me, and I'll look out for
you.

Julian

> 
> 
> Thanks & regards,
> 
> Jeff
> 
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