Speakerphone for Ubuntu 8.10?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 03:22:45PM -0500, Alex Beamish wrote:
> Looks like I might have to be on a work conference call tonight, using Skype.
> 
> I had Skype working when my system was using Fedora 8, but an upgrade
> to F9 went badly so I moved to Ubuntu 8.10. I installed Skype recently
> but couldn't get it to work with my USB headset. Now I'm looking at
> have a colleague over for the conference call, so I'd like to have
> some sort of speakerphone setup.
> 
> I've googled for this (skype ubuntu speakerphone -headset) and found
> this page from 2.5 years ago:
> 
>   http://www.hotvoipnews.com/blog_46.shtml
> 
> The unit sure looks cool, but I'm not sure I can source one here in
> Toronto in the next six hours .. unless someone on the list can a)
> suggest a local store that might carry this unit or b) tell me that
> using a bog-standard microphone plugged into my sound card should work
> fine.
> 
> Comments?

Skype sucks.  The protocol is disgusting from a network point of view.

So far I highly encourage people to switch to something standards
compliant, like sip and h.323.  I use ekiga, which uses those standards,
and has windows and linux software available and works with lots of
other programs (including I believe microsoft netmeeting).

Avoid vendor lockin by refusing to use skype.

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