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RE: [LUG] Video Conferencing

 

> >     Any suggestions regarding visual/audio hardware, software and
> > configuration would be gratefully received as this project will be
> > entirely new to me.
> 
> 1.  Actually a Mac Mini with iSight camera is better than anything on
> Windows, if you want a prepackaged solution.
> 
> 2.  On Linux, Gnomemeeting seems to sort of work, you need a lot of
> ports open on the firewall for it though.
> I've never got round to making it work over the Internet, but it is
> effective on the LAN.
> 
> i have a Philips 740 camera which is quite nice.

Yahoo Messenger (and I imagine several similar products) offer fairly painless video 
conferencing, YM certainly exists for Linux (not sure if it has the video feature 
though) and OSX (this version does appear to have video). If you can live without 
video then Skype works very well (and on Linux).

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