http://www.osnews.com/story/12599/The_VoIP_Factor_Interview_with_Frank_W_Miller_Ph_D_ Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:36:39 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?58436 http://osnews.com/thread?58436 ...it's nice to see more developers embracing VoIP. On the long run, I believe that those who are in it early will reap the most benefits. However, it must be said that - IMHO - those clients that do not support the SIP protocol are already doomed. That's why I support projects like Gizmo, because they make sure the users of VoIP don't become fragmented, by basing their technology on open standards. :-)

http://www.gizmoproject.com/ Wed, 09 Nov 2005 19:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (1c3d0g) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?58461 http://osnews.com/thread?58461 Maybe, but too bad that their Linux client only works with .deb-based distros. I can't use their client on my Arch Linux.

So, CornfedSIP to the rescue! I have configured CorfedSIP to use Gizmo's Sipphone servers and so I am using Gizmo through it! Wed, 09 Nov 2005 19:41:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?58553 http://osnews.com/thread?58553 I agree. Gizmo's decision to treat Linux as a second-class platform and to treat non-debian distributions as third-class citizens is a huge mistake.

I have wanted to like the project for a good while, but they have not made it easy for me and I have finally standardized on Skype for now, which means that it will be a while before I switch because it was hard enough to move my contacts from MSN or AOL to skype.

Their loss. Gizmo could have and does have a lot of unrealized potential. In fact, I was really rooting for it, but I think they simply don't have the developer resources or the willingness to bring true multiplatform support.

Supporting Suse, Mandrake, Fedora, Debian and a static tar.gz installation just like skype does is all they would need to do. Wed, 09 Nov 2005 22:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?58598 http://osnews.com/thread?58598 So, CornfedSIP to the rescue!

CornfedSIP uses Gtk therefore I shouldn't use it. Gnome just sucks, sorry. Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:20:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Joe User) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?58607 http://osnews.com/thread?58607 Then use the CLI. Nobody's forcing you to use Gnome. Why is it that you trolls have to grumble your dislike of GTK/QT at every possible opportunity? Let's keep things civil here.

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7) Leave. Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (monodeldiablo) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?58623 http://osnews.com/thread?58623 The free softphones in my Linux distribution are Linphone, Kphone and Minisip. None of these are tied to any particular provider. Gnomemeeting and Gaim are developing SIP plugins. Why yet another SIP client?

Why not help the other projects? One thing that would be very welcome is the ability to start SIP sessions from Jabber and add that functionality to clients, then look into extending it to also support iChat's and Google Talk's ways of doing it. That would be useful. Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?58633 http://osnews.com/thread?58633 >Why yet another SIP client?

This is just disrespectful for the author. CornfedSIP *predates* most of the projects and plugins you mentioned. Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?58661 http://osnews.com/thread?58661 Just to chim in I mean no disrespect to the author of cornfed as it looks like a really good sip phone. However I stopped once I only saw rpms available. I'm on ubuntu and I know I could convert rpms, but I really like to avoid that. So I've been trying a few others which are pretty good as well. twinklephone for kde is good (twinklephone.com) and so is linphone. Also you can have sip functionality now with gnomemeeting by using the cvs. The cool thing is they offer cvs binaries for just about every debian distro and rpms as well. I wish more cutting edge software did this. Also they are not just binaries for deb but proper sources so you can apt-get cvs updates which are pretty much daily.

I wish more software did this for checking out the latest stuff. Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Anonymous) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?58670 http://osnews.com/thread?58670 Anonymous: Frank is working as we speak to provide a binary tarball for all users and distributions. I wrote for him a basic installer and we tested it successfully last night. He should be having the tarball ready in a matter of a few hours or tomorrow. Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Eugenia) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?58760 http://osnews.com/thread?58760 A TAR binary distribution with shell scripts for installation (and removal if you need that) has been posted. Check http://www.cornfed.com/products for a link to the distribution options. Thu, 10 Nov 2005 04:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fwmiller) Comments