How to use other voip sip softphones than skype in linux

[Ric Moore]

On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 06:27 +0000, user1 wrote:
> I am skyping with a friend who has windows xp and I am using lucid.
> 
> The video and sound is often broken so the conversation is often 
> difficult to follow.
> 
> Then I tried aMSN and it tells that it will not do video.
> 
> Then I tried linphone and the sound did not work.
> 
> Then I tried Ekiga and could not make it work.
> 
> Then I tried Kphone and that I could not make to work.
> 
> So now I am back to skype.
> 
> Any good experience of using another softphone which is as easy to setup 
> as skype and which works well?
> 
> It has to be easy to setup so even newbies can use it :-)

Have you tried the google service yet? Ric


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