GnomeMeeting: It's not just for video conferencing (NewsForge) [LWN.net]

NewsForge has a review of GnomeMeeting. "GnomeMeeting is now at the 1.2 release, and is available in distribution-specific binaries for Debian, Fedora Core 2, Slackware, Mandrake, and SUSE. The source code is available as well, if your distro isn't included in that list."

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GnomeMeeting: It's not just for video conferencing (NewsForge)

Posted Feb 23, 2005 7:57 UTC (Wed) by davidw (subscriber, #947) [Link]

Too much fiddling with ports, it looks like to me. I want something that 'just works'. I can deal with opening and closing 10 or so ports, but my parents? My fiancee` at her university laboratory? It's not going to fly...

GnomeMeeting: It's not just for video conferencing (NewsForge)

Posted Mar 4, 2005 13:00 UTC (Fri) by job (subscriber, #670) [Link]

"Fiddling with ports"? You can't have it both ways. Either you install a
box which is supposed to stop all attempts to contact you, or you don't
in which case it will "just work".

Forwarding ports is just white-listing which protocols are allowed to
contact you with. You may have to help your friends/parents with that,
but it's the same with every protocol. Your box is broken if it doesn't
require that.

Still H323

Posted Feb 23, 2005 8:04 UTC (Wed) by nigelm (subscriber, #622) [Link]

Its a real shame that we got a functional H323 client for Linux at just the point where the world had moved on. All of my company's VOIP related stuff is now over SIP.

I see a SIP test version is intended for a month or so time - but until then Gnomemeeting would give me no-one to talk to.

Still H323

Posted Feb 23, 2005 8:20 UTC (Wed) by hingo (subscriber, #14792) [Link]

No one to talk to ....all by myself
No one to walk with.....I'm happy on the shelf
Ain't misbehavin'......savin' all my love for you

I haven't had time to try it (and it seems me neither has anyone to talk to...) but KPhone (http://www.wirlab.net/kphone/) uses SIP.

As for opening ports, yes the NetMeeting protocol was rather wasteful in that respect. But there is no getting around it, SIP too is kinda peer-to-peer when you want audio or video, so either you'll have to open some ports, or you need to have a proxy server somewhere.

Huh? Using too many ports?

Posted Feb 23, 2005 17:36 UTC (Wed) by patipati (guest, #28059) [Link]

If I had to manually configure something each time I "used a port", it'd be a full time job :)

Still H323

Posted Mar 4, 2005 12:56 UTC (Fri) by job (subscriber, #670) [Link]

There are several VoIP apps using SIP available for Linux: kphone,
linphone, minisip, phonegaim, shtoom and sjphone are a few I've looked
at. At least kphone has the beginnings of video support.

GnomeMeeting: It's not just for video conferencing (NewsForge)

Posted Feb 23, 2005 17:08 UTC (Wed) by patipati (guest, #28059) [Link]

It's got IPv6 support, good excuse to fire up 6to4 and get your friends to do the same :)