About a year back I started using voip phones. Now I can't live without it. I travel a lot, and I carry my laptop with me. All I need is a connection to the web and viola.. I'm in touch with all my family n friends.
Back in the day Ekiga softphone came with most of the linux distros. Ekiga communication suite is an offshoot of gnomeeting, which originated as the answer to microsoft netmeeting. The beauty of opensource is that while microsoft was busy with the bullshit Digital Rights Management (or.. in other words.. putting clampdown on your computer) linux programmers were busy improving the practicality and functionality. Ekiga 2.0.12 was a fully functional and easy to operate phone, and it came with many distros.. like the one I used to use .. Ubuntu 8.04 (long time support version).
Something came over me. Ok.. frankly it was the problems with Hybernate / Suspend .. that made me switch to Ubuntu 9.10. New kernel, no problems with hybernation or suspend.. however it came with Ekiga 3.2. The problem with Ekiga 3.2 is that it just does not work. After spending 3 odd days trying to figure out how to make Ekiga 3.2 connect to my voip provider, or find and install the older version of Ekiga that actually worked, I finally gave up.
After some research and stumbling upon various softphones that had one issue or the other, I finally found QuteCom. It was in the ubuntu respositories / launchpad. I installed it and it works perfect.
Not only is QuteCom a fully functional softphone, it's a complete communications suite with msn / aol / yahoo etc everything built-in. I have not seen a more powerful, more useful single utility for communication.
So .. mucho respect goes towards Mbdsys for making this gem of a software. Thank you.
For more information on QuteCom : http://www.qutecom.org/
If you are using Ubuntu 9.10:
1. go to https://launchpad.net/~cavedon/+archive/qutecom
2. Copy the links for the sources lists and add them to your software sources (menu|system|administration|software sources|third party)
3. add the key (use 'follow the instructions' thing on that page)
4. go to terminal .. type " sudo apt-get install qutecom ".
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