LAN Chat/Talk

[Christopher Chan]

On Friday, September 24, 2010 06:00 AM, Tony Pursell wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 22:50 +0100, Ken Adams wrote:
>> What suggestions do you all have for a Gnome based Talk/Chat program
>> that looks and feels like empathy etc. that runs just on a LAN and only
>> the users on that lan can log into it.??
>>
>> Rgds Ken
>>
>
> Hi Ken
>
> I'm no expert on this, but try
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpJabberServer
>
> Then you can all use Empathy.
>
> There is also some exiting developments, like Muji which hold out the
> prospect of video conferencing!
>
> http://blogs.gnome.org/danni/2010/06/07/muji-multi-user-jingle/
>

There was a solution using vic a long time ago for video 
conferencing...but it sure has taken ages to show up anywhere else.