aashiks'in

So finally Google got their act together and released a googletalk plugin for GNU/Linux systems – they released it for Ubuntu. A sensible option since a large number of desktop GNU/Linux users use Ubuntu. They might make an RPM available. So what about the Arch people ?

Aah. Thats the point cpcgm goes ahead and creates a PKGBUILD and puts it on AUR. You can look at it here and install it (if you have yaourt ) using

 yaourt -S google-talkplugin

This – the self dependence and readiness to understand and fix the systems – is why Arch has the best documentation around , and at the same time a small,close community. I love being a part of it

Great news . Pidgin 2.6.1 came out – this now means that I no longer will be forced to use proprietary software for audio chat.

I have started testing it on my Arch linux system. I have to try compatibility between the following : Pidgin, GTalk client, empathy. So far the results using pidgin 2.6.1 are :

Pidgin test results

Remarks : So far , only GTalk has been tested.  Accepting calls initiated by GTalk doesnt work with pidgin. I cannot start my video while on an audio call with GTalk client.

I will update the rest of the columns as soon as I finish testing.