Running Google Talk on ubuntu

[Scott]

Giorgos wrote:
> The only reason I keep booting into windows is to use the voice chat
> feature of google talk. It doesn't work with wine atm and I can connect
> to google talk's servers with gaim but you have to have the official
> client to use the voice chat.
> 
> This functionality is vital to me, I have installed skype but it gives
> me problems (laggy in both windows and linux versions.)
> 
> 

So then are you asking for suggestions?

Off the top of my head, I'd say check out http://www.gizmoproject.com/ .

They have Debian packages.  I've never tried Gizmo myself but I've heard 
it's better than Skype.