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Is there any chance that you will adapt this for the Ubuntu environment? My windows xp/pro machine with a quad Intel processor, 4gb ram, and a pair of 10,000 rpm system disks in raid-1, works great; however, on a lesser machine (p4, xp/home, 1.5gb ram, 7200 rpm system disk) ooVoo was somewhat sluggish.  And, my last ooVoo experience, before last night, was on that platform back in July 2007, when ooVoo was still in Beta.  I just gave my brother a nice new Webcam and mic and he is having trouble on his laptop.  We'll spend some time tweaking his video settings, reducing the frame rate, etc., to see if he can get a better experience.
 
Meanwhile, a friend gave me a 8 or 9 year old pc (originally distributed with win 2000) and I wiped the hard disk and installed Ubuntu on it.  It is a real streamer!  Wow!  Whole new experience in GUI computing for me (and I should know - was an early user of the Xerox Star back when Apple was bolting their motherboards on hunks of 3/4" plywood!).

Linux distributions are here to stay.  A small part of the market, but I'll bet it grows.

So, anything in the future for the L guys?

 

yes if anyone have oovoo for ubuntu / fedora

Yes, ooVoo will be releasing a version for Ubuntu.  Our MAC version is already mostly Java, so it's not a big stretch, but it is unlikely to happen in 2008.

Tom Herman
VP Product Marketing
ooVoo

 I'm waiting a linux ooVoo version.

Any update...your message about a possible Ubuntu version was from June 12, 2008.

Surely there's been some progress considering that 90% of the servers for Cloud computing are running Linux/Ubuntu 64 Bit, many Netbooks are Ubuntu/Linux based because of the small requirements for h/w that Linux/Ubuntu needs.

I would think your company would be pretty interested in getting an Ubuntu/Linux version completed sometime this decade.

Yes, it is true that we are very interested in supporting Linux (Ubuntu) sometime this decade.  In fact, we'd like to do it sooner than later, but as I'm sure you can imagine it's more a question of resources and priorities than simply what we'd like.  I'm sure you understand that we're trying to run a business and we're trying to figure out how to make enough money from the product we've created to pay the bills.  As such, it's hard to justify Linux before we get a Windows and Mac solution that pays for itself.

 So, Linux is definitely still on the docket and actually from a market perspective it's as much for STBs as for netbooks.

 Sorry I don't have a better answer... :(

-tj

 I am going to return to using Linux and would like to use oovoo. I'm more than willing to be a "beta tester".

 I am going to return to using Linux and would like to use oovoo. I'm more than willing to be a "beta tester" or provide any help needed.