SIP account creation uncommon?

Posted Dec 13, 2012 13:56 UTC (Thu) by n8willis (subscriber, #43041)
In reply to: SIP account creation uncommon? by tpo
Parent article: Ekiga 4.0

Mostly Jitsi, Twinkle and QuteCom/Wengophone/WhateverTheyCallItToday. Plus various mobile clients, which tend not to live as long. On that point, though, Twinkle has been dead for years (which is a real shame, since it supported call encryption). I'm not sure what the current state of QuteCom development is (last I checked I couldn't get the development series to compile and it seemed like Linux was not high on their priority list -- an understandable but unfortunate decision).

It's been a while since I looked at Linphone; good to hear that it offers a SIP service -- I think the last time I looked, they were offering accounts but you had to register for them on the web site and set them up manually in the client, which is the awkward part.

YMMV, but in recent years it seems to me like the more interesting area has been the server and infrastructure space, like GNU SIP Witch.

Nate

SIP account creation uncommon?

Posted Dec 14, 2012 11:29 UTC (Fri) by tpo (subscriber, #25713) [Link]

> Twinkle has been dead for years

"dead" is a too negative qualification IMO. Twinkle has not seen any updates since a few years, however various people have forked the project (I haven't checked if they were able to progress) and also there's an active mailing list for it. The etch Debian packages are still installable under wheezy and are working well.
*t

SIP account creation uncommon?

Posted Dec 20, 2012 14:02 UTC (Thu) by Velmont (guest, #46433) [Link]

Why not Empathy? I've been using that for SIP for a long time, and it is really nice. I don't even think I'm using SIP that much even, maybe it's XMPP calls from Google mostly - it just works, I don't have to care about it.

You need to install telepathy-sofiasip to get it, -- but it works, even on my phone (Nokia N9). :-)

I honestly think Telepathy is the best way to do this now. And the different clients that use it (e.g. Empathy) is better to use than to use Ekiga.