Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-23 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com To: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed, June 22, 2011 11:26:30 PM Subject: Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD? Hey guys.this thread is really starting to stink. Take it outside. On Wed, Jun 22, 2011

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-22 Thread David Scheidt
On Jun 20, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: . . . and, somehow, social convention tells me it would be rude to let this person know (for next time) that everything will be much easier for everyone if the data is just left in its original format. Oh, I'd have sent an email saying

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:08:59PM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: On Jun 20, 2011, at 10:46 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: . . . and, somehow, social convention tells me it would be rude to let this person know (for next time) that everything will be much easier for everyone if the data is just

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-20 Thread Matthias Apitz
message from Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:42:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com To: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD? ... Oh and just in case...I use Asterisk on FreeBSD-8.2-STABLE

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-20 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 12:34:51 -0400, Jerry wrote: Would you care to elaborate on that statement? Is your prejudice based on the fact that there is nothing in the open-source community that can even begin to match the robustness and ease of use of MS Office, [...] Are you refering to the

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-20 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 11:30:46 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: It's not prejudice. That assumes I prejudge. My judgment is based on years of fighting with the BS features of office suites of all descriptions for years, and loathing every minute of it. I don't care whether they're open source,

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-20 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 11:22:48 -0400, Jerry wrote: Open or closed makes no relative difference to me or the majority of users as has been demonstrated numerous time with various software titles. The majority doesn't always have to be quantitative. (Rosa Luxemburg) Average home users avoid

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-20 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 01:36:17PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 11:30:46 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: It's not prejudice. That assumes I prejudge. My judgment is based on years of fighting with the BS features of office suites of all descriptions for years, and loathing

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-20 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:46:24 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 01:36:17PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: You can easily deduct what happens when the table of contents changes, or when the font size changes. Hell, I've even seen people doing two column documents with spaces.

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-20 Thread Chad Perrin
This email actually mentions Skype and SIP phones toward the end. On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 06:29:03PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:46:24 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: I still managed to do everything I needed to do in under twenty minutes, but if the data had been left in the

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-20 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:04:28 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: This email actually mentions Skype and SIP phones toward the end. Much appreviated. :-) In general, the simplest possible format to achieve what is actually needed is the best option. True. This means that even LaTeX is usually

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-20 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 07:44:04PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:04:28 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: This means that even LaTeX is usually the wrong choice. LaTeX is for typesetting text (articles, books, technical documents, maybe even letters) - nothing more, nothing less.

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-19 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Saturday, June 18, 2011 a las 10:24:21PM -0700, Yuri escribió: On 06/18/2011 22:10, Matthias Apitz wrote: Try this for building ekiga from SVN/git: http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Compile_your_own_SVN_version_of_Ekiga_on_FreeBSD It does use GTK and works in FreeBSD.

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-19 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:23:15 +0100 Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk articulated: I think we have to wait for somebody to write a Skype clone and hopefully MS taking over Skype will provide the impetus (MS will drop the linux port as soon as they can). Yes, more FUD. No one, including the OP has

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2011-06-19 Thread dave . segleau
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2011-06-19 Thread Jerry
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2011-06-19 Thread Michael Powell
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Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-19 Thread Jurgen Debo
The fact Microsoft did buy Skype, does worry me too. The Skype protocol is a closed protocol. SIP is an open standard. And about Microsoft ? Almost EVERYTHING in hands of Microsoft turns to a disaster or something which does compromise security, privacy or whatever. They can't make a secured

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-19 Thread Ryan Coleman
... I hate to say this but they made Bungie into something really good. But I miss Marathon. On Jun 19, 2011, at 8:50 AM, Jurgen Debo wrote: And about Microsoft ? Almost EVERYTHING in hands of Microsoft turns to a disaster or something which does compromise security, privacy or whatever.

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-19 Thread Mark Sumter
From http://www.jitsi.org/ (formerly SIP Communicator) All this, and more, in Jitsi - the most complete and advanced open source ... With a little bit of extra bravery you can also easily build and run it on FreeBSD. and [all] you need is a recent JDK and ANT. Good luck with that. Mark

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-19 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:50:44 +0200 Jurgen Debo articulated: The fact Microsoft did buy Skype, does worry me too. The Skype protocol is a closed protocol. SIP is an open standard. Open or closed makes no relative difference to me or the majority of users as has been demonstrated numerous time

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-19 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 09:49:49 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated: I eagerly await the day when office suites go the way of the dodo. I think people use them more due to a form of Stockholm Syndrome than out of any specific need, in most cases. Would you care to elaborate on that statement? Is your

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-19 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:22:48AM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:50:44 +0200 Jurgen Debo articulated: The fact Microsoft did buy Skype, does worry me too. The Skype protocol is a closed protocol. SIP is an open standard. Open or closed makes no relative difference to me or

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-19 Thread Jurgen Debo
Hello Jerry 2011/6/19 Jerry je...@seibercom.net On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:50:44 +0200 Jurgen Debo articulated: The fact Microsoft did buy Skype, does worry me too. The Skype protocol is a closed protocol. SIP is an open standard. Open or closed makes no relative difference to me or the

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-19 Thread Bill Tillman
Wow. this thread really took a turn for the worse. So getting back to the main topic about SIP phones, I have been using SIP phones since 2006 and I never found anything that worked under FreeBSD. Mainly for this reason and this reason seems to mirror where this thread went off topic. While I

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-19 Thread Yuri
On 06/18/2011 10:19, Yuri wrote: I tried ekiga but it doesn't work. It gets into standby mode and stays this way. I think it's because of firewall. There is the PR for this. I looked into Empathy. On Linux telepathy-sofiasip should be installed to add SIP to empathy, and on FreeBSD there is no

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-18 Thread Ivan Klymenko
В Sat, 18 Jun 2011 10:19:33 -0700 Yuri y...@rawbw.com пишет: I tried ekiga but it doesn't work. It gets into standby mode and stays this way. I think it's because of firewall. There is the PR for this. I looked into Empathy. On Linux telepathy-sofiasip should be installed to add SIP to

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-18 Thread Yuri
On 06/18/2011 10:32, Ivan Klymenko wrote: I also can not get ekiga to work even after trying to configure a firewall and router, guided by the following instructions: http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Internet_ports_used_by_Ekiga http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Enable_port_forwarding_manually

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-18 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 10:19:33AM -0700, Yuri wrote: I tried ekiga but it doesn't work. It gets into standby mode and stays this way. I think it's because of firewall. There is the PR for this. I looked into Empathy. On Linux telepathy-sofiasip should be installed to add SIP to empathy,

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-18 Thread Yuri
On 06/18/2011 11:03, Frank Shute wrote: Skype works. You need a reasonably recent 7 or 8 STABLE or CURRENT and the linux-f10 stuff. There are a number of skype ports; you want to use net-im/skype. I use skype and trying to get rid of it. For security reasons. Also for the reason that MS

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-18 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: I tried ekiga but it doesn't work. It gets into standby mode and stays this way. I think it's because of firewall. There is the PR for this. Just to rule out the obvious, are you sure you've configured the *audio* ports and the mixer

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-18 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 02:33:06PM -0700, Yuri wrote: On 06/18/2011 14:23, Frank Shute wrote: I was going to use Ekiga but it's dependency on qt and my small SSD meant it was a no go. As another poster mentioned, I wasn't overly impressed that you have to muck about with your router etc.

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-18 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:23:15 +0100, Frank Shute wrote: I think we have to wait for somebody to write a Skype clone and hopefully MS taking over Skype will provide the impetus (MS will drop the linux port as soon as they can). Some time ago I've read (at least I _think_ I read it) that someone

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-18 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:23:15 +0100, Frank Shute wrote: I think we have to wait for somebody to write a Skype clone and hopefully MS taking over Skype will provide the impetus (MS will drop the linux port as soon as they can).

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-18 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 03:44:11 +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 22:23:15 +0100, Frank Shute wrote: I think we have to wait for somebody to write a Skype clone and hopefully MS taking over Skype will provide the

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-18 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Saturday, June 18, 2011 a las 11:32:02PM +0100, Frank Shute escribió: On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 02:33:06PM -0700, Yuri wrote: Actually, ekiga is GTK app and isn't supposed to use any Qt. That's what I thought before I started building it but it dragged in all the qt stuff for

Re: Any working SIP-phone on FreeBSD?

2011-06-18 Thread Yuri
On 06/18/2011 22:10, Matthias Apitz wrote: Try this for building ekiga from SVN/git: http://wiki.ekiga.org/index.php/Compile_your_own_SVN_version_of_Ekiga_on_FreeBSD It does use GTK and works in FreeBSD. This HOWTO is truly amazing. Why don't they just fix the FreeBSD port instead of