[Free-RTC] should Linux distributions include a softphone?

[johnc]

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Hi Daniel,

I think that is a really good idea. It is possible to include a
functional softphone though. E.g. the team behind sflphone (now ring)
have recently added p2p functionality to their softphone. It supports
SIP for more traditional hub topologies also. It could be configured as
part of the Debian install process.

https://ring.cx/

Another client we could make pretty much make work out of the box is tox
https://tox.chat/

Kind Regards,
John


On 13/01/16 10:43, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> 
> 
> I sent an email on the debian-devel mailing list about the way Debian
> chooses which softphone to distribute:
> 
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2016/01/msg00434.html
> 
> For a long time, I feel that distributions have not given this a lot of
> thought, they just install whatever is part of the desktop environment,
> even if it is not fully functional.  This is one reason people don't
> have a lot of confidence in free softphones and I feel it also
> undermines confidence in free software in general.
> 
> It would be really helpful if people could give their feedback on this
> issue in Debian and if you use another Linux distribution, start a
> similar discussion on their mailing list and send a link to it here.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Daniel
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