[PLUG] Tech Requirements for Speak Shop - Linux
alan
alan at clueserver.org
Wed Oct 31 16:19:40 UTC 2007
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
>
>> There's a Spanish learning web site that ties together students with
>> under-employed tutors in Guatemala. Lower cost lessons for the student,
>> way above average wages for the tutors. Unfortunately, they have some
>> issues with Linux. As the tech support person said:
>
> Michael,
>
> Ekiga (formerly GnomeMeeting) supports video and _may_ interoperate with
> Skype; I don't recall whether it does, but there was a thread on the mail
> list about this.
It is supposed to, but there is a bug that causes it to core. It is being
fixed.
> I'm surprised there's not a F/OSS application that has equivalent
> functionality as the Flass stuff while running on Microsoft, linux, and
> MacOSX.
Much of the F/OSS stuff works better. (Mainly because when problems
occur, they get fixed. Not so for a lot of proprietary code.) When the
TWiT people tried using Skype for conferencing they got a lot of
mismatched time delay problems. (Maybe that is fixed now. I don't
teleconference very often.)
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