Ubuntu equivalent of SKYPE

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 02 July 2015 09:47:54 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> Skype is one of a class of applications called VOIP (voice over IP). 
> Ekiga (originally GnomeMeeting) was another such.  There may be
> others.
>
> I'd suggest you use VOIP or Ekiga in a search and see what you find.

I always thought ekiga was the best of the lot.  But you have to register 
to use it, and if your isp is in the telephone business too, you will 
never see the response coming back from the ekiga registration site.  
TBT, the telco's will not allow that competition.  Its the first rule in 
their "spam" filter.
>
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 8:25 PM, Chris Luck
> <chris at bvhg.freeserve.co.uk>
>
> wrote:
> > On 30/06/15 18:48, Nils Kassube wrote:
> >> Of course you need the canonical partner repo.
> >
> > Doh!  When Jay posed the original question I thought it odd that
> > skype wasn't available in 14.04.  I'm using 14.10 and when looking
> > for 14.04 I got no further than the basic repo.
> >
> > <skulks away shaking head>
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Chris Luck
> >
> >
> >
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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