#sh Blog - Entries tagged as Ekiga

I recently signed up for a sipgate base account. If you choose the basic tarif you can get a free landline number without paying anything, as long you don't use it to call out. This handy for people with have a phone flat to call landline phones.

Sipgate uses standard SIP technology to forward calls to VoIP clients. Hence you can actually use it with any client soft- and hardware supporting SIP (s.th. which wouldn't be possible with Skype). Sipgate has a own windows client you can use if you use windows, which is already pre-configured for the use with sipgate. If you use other plattforms you have to set it up yourself.
For Linux there are two major SIP apps. One is Ekiga* and one is Empathy (relying on the telepathy framework). If you want to use Empathy for SIP, you should first install the telepathy-sofiasip package from the repository. Otherwise nothing happens when you add a new SIP account.

In debian based Distros just use: apt-get install telepathy-sofiasip

After that you can just add a new SIP account with Empathy, using your details from the login area of sipgate.

I just saw that a the roadmap for the GNOME 2.2 relases is out. There are many good improvements on the list. So, if you are a GNOME user it's really woth a look.

Another good news is, that Ekiga (VoIP client) is finally getting a nice GUI with a proper contact list. So it will offer more usability than the ancient GnomeMeeting look. The new GUI will be first used in Ekiga 3.0.

So we can expect nice things to happen in the near future. GNOME 2.20 will come out on the 19th of September (according to the schedule), including the version 3.0 of Ekiga.