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5 Years of Ekiga and Open Source Voice over IP

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2006-07-03 08:51. Ekiga

We celebrate this week the 5th birthday of the Ekiga project.

Ekiga is the first Open Source software to bring both Voice over IP/IP Telephony and video conferencing to the desktop, since 2001. It quickly became popular, among others thanks to the compatibility with the Netmeeting software.

Today, Ekiga has evolved into a mature and stable product which is not limited to Netmeeting anymore, in terms of compatibility. This was made possible thanks to the addition of another protocol, namely SIP.

But this is not the end of the story.You will find here a retrospective of the key points of the history of Ekiga. It is probably a good idea to remember that Ekiga consists also of 5 years of spare time hacking and devotion to the GNOME desktop.