Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Skype Replacement?

[Ted Smith]

On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 12:00 +0200, cryptie@nym.hush.com wrote:
> Ramana,
> 
> I had a quit similar issue in a different settings. In our case we
> were looking for a solution for conf-call in a personal context (so
> the financial question was also important) and we need something
> stable and easy to use.
> Our solution was Mumble-murmur (http://mumble.sourceforge.net/) which
> are BSD and GPL licensed.
> 
> The client, Mumble, runs on Windows, Mac OS X and GNU/Linux. This was
> an important point for us as we were a quite heterogeneous group.
> Furthermore, the Windows client is very easy to install (the windows
> users of our group were the most computer illiterate, thus we need
> something very easy to use for them).
>         The server component, Murmur, can run on GNU/Linux even if,
> for our
> part, we use public murmur servers. As Mumble is really common in the
> gaming-world there is a lot of solutions to get a channel from setting
> up your own server to public hosts (commercial or not). You have a
> list of some hosts on the mumble sourceforge page
> (http://mumble.sourceforge.net/Hosters). 


This is dead-easy to install and configure on Debian-based GNU/Linux
variants.

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