Cross-Platform Video Chat For Linux?

Ethan1701 writes "Some of my friends are using iChat to stay in touch and gap the distance of the Atlantic. I'm feeling left out on my Fedora Gnome based desktop. Is there a good program for Gnome that provides cross-platform instant messaging and video chat? This rules out Skype and aMSN, as well as any other app that's specific for the ICQ/AOL Network. Kopete is for KDE. Pidgin doesn't intend to develop video-chat, I haven't found a plugin for it that provides video, and Gaim-vv hasn't been developed in over two years and is so out of date that it's still going by Gaim and not Pidgin. Do Slashdot readers have an application that meets these needs? Maybe even one that surpasses iChat?"

Re:Ekiga

[Anonymous Coward]

[citation needed]

Use it anyways.

[hxftw]

Use Kopete anyways? It won't kill you. Loading the libraries for both UI tool kits wont make your computer explode.

Re:Real men chat in ascii

[aliquis]

works ok if you look your best in ascii encoded video I guess ;)

Re:Skype

[aliquis]

Yeah but does it work with a black eeepc?

Re:Ekiga

[Anonymous Coward]

[Citation Rejected]

Re:Ekiga

[MarginalWatcher]

Are you sure it wasn't because they found themselves using an operating system designed by Microsoft?

Re:any idea how many times ive seen that phrase?

[Curtman]

Are you doing all this for me for free? If so, I should say "thank you" and not fucking complain.

Give the kid a break. He used a car analogy and everything. He's been doing his homework.

How to run Kopete in Gnome

[roystgnr]

Step 1: Run Kopete.

Glad I could help. Let me know if you have any more questions.

Re:Ekiga

[cs668]

Could be, I guess friends shouldn't let friends use windows!

Re:Real men chat in ascii

[PPH]

Dit dah dah, dit dit, dah dah, dit dah dah dit.

Re:Skype

[Methuselah2]

No idea, but works quite well with the white one. chuckle

Re:Ekiga

[diqmay]

and here I thought it had a rather nice ass.