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Ask HN: serious alternative to Skype on Linux/OSX/Windows and smartphones?
In the light the NSA scandal, I'm considering terminating our company's use of Skype. I had been looking at Ekiga for a while, but it does not seem to support OSX nor smartphones. Any more serious alternative ?
- magic_haze 13y agohttps://whispersystems.org/ https://whispersystems.org/ has an excellent pedigree, but it's only voice and text, and only on Android right now (though I've heard an ios version is coming soon...)
- Iloveyatesomuch 13y agoYate does voice/video/xmpp. the Yate-Qt4 client is incredible under linux, and the Windows/Mac ports are awesome as well.
- Iloveyatesomuch 13y agooh yeah, http://yate.ro http://yate.ro is the address.
- pilooch 13y agomany thanks! It may well be the one.
- shirkey 13y agoJitsi is another option: https://jitsi.org https://jitsi.org
- jamesjguthrie 13y agoIf you don't need video then I'd setup a private IRC server.
- pilooch 13y agoright, we already use an IRC server over VPN. Definitely the best for chat and logs I agree!
- pilooch 13y agoSo, actually one I've discovered, and tried with great success, is Mumble, http://mumble.sourceforge.net/ http://mumble.sourceforge.net/