[HLUG] Voice chat for AIM

[Jeff Tupholme]

Thanks Julian. I'm registered for the Expo and Saturday would be a  
good day for me to go; I guess you'll be there in the afternoon?


Jeff


On 22 Oct 2008, at 1:46pm, Julian Robbins wrote:

>
> 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