Best FOSS alternative for skype?

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 18:54, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thus the question: is there a FOSS VoIP app that provides roughly the same
>>>> quality, reliability and free-as-in-beer service?
>>>
>>> I´ve been lately becoming a fan of "Jitsi". It´s an open source client
>>> that does SIP VOIP (including video), Google Talk, Jabber, AIM, ICQ,
>>> and Facebook chat, all in one.
>>>
>>> Plus, I can configure it with my local SIP VOIP service, and take
>>> calls from the phone network with a local number (and make calls as
>>> well).
>>>
>>> http://jitsi.org/index.php/Main/Download
>>
>> Do you (or anyone) know if someone has volunteered to make an official
>> Fedora package? I might volunteer if no one else has...
>>
>> I'll check for a review request in bugzilla.
>
> No review requests but I think I know why, it appears to be dependent
> on Sun Java, I'm not sure if it will work with Iced Tea... This could
> get interesting.

I got it to compile with the free java but the install is manual (no
"make install" or equivalent) and I compared the output of the build
to the files in the provided generic RPM and there's quite a few
missing. I guess I could pull them from the generic RPM but that would
get messy.

Richard