How to use other voip sip softphones than skype in linux

[Christopher Chan]

On Tuesday, September 07, 2010 02:27 PM, user1 wrote:
> I am skyping with a friend who has windows xp and I am using lucid.

1) skype is not a sip softphone. It uses a proprietary protocol, not the 
open standard sip protocol.


>
> 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?

I am using Ekiga as a sip phone. But then I run my own sip service so I 
guess that does not count.


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> It has to be easy to setup so even newbies can use it :-)
>
>

Easy enough on the client side. Just look elsewhere if you both clients 
to just setup an account and voila! Have you tried Ekiga accounts on 
that score? I have my Ekiga interfaced with a Cisco Unified 
Communications box (just a big name for an ip phone pbx) and my own sip 
line via asterisk.