Yup, little by little Linux is loosing its charms :-( On Sunday 23 March 2008 21:17:56 willhill wrote: > Three years ago, that's how the stable world was. Things get better. > > I have examples of older equipment from the "not so great" older equipment > world. This one is a DLink: > > http://68.225.99.100:1024/photo_album/chron/2007/2007_11_14_dlink_works/ > > Like most free software, it's rock solid. The camera itself leaves a lot > to be desired. The next one is from an analog camera and capture card. > > http://68.225.99.100:1024/photo_album/chron/2008/2008_01_24_working_video_c >apture/ > > Notice how much nicer the image is. That's about what you can get out of > the EEE PC's built in camera and what I expect from video cameras now. > > Now you want a client and the biggest problem is a fractured, non free > client population. Skype, I think, has a popular non free client which > should just work if your friend have Skype. Gnome meeting became Ekiga and > this is a first class communications program ... if you can get your > friends to use it or something that talks to it. The KDE IM client kopete > has web cam support but I don't know if it works in Etch because I have > moved on to Lenny and only one person I know has a web cam that might talk > to it. This is one area that will change drastically if Google's chat > client is widely used and they get video chat going. > > On Sunday 23 March 2008, Daniel Webb wrote: > > Excellent, that's exactly what I wanted to hear! I was afraid I would > > get the answer I sometimes get in the Linux world when things barely > > work, which goes something like "theoretically, X driver will support > > some things, maybe". > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
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