I now have a few customers of VoIP Advantage who use PCs running different flavours of Ubuntu as their operating system. This morning I helped a client set up a softphone to connect to our VoIP service from a PC running Ubuntu 9.04.
I discovered that the built in softphone Ekiga was a nightmare to use to connect to SIP accounts. I have made it work on older versions of Ubuntu but failed on 9.04. I then downloaded the Linux version of X-Lite from Counterpath. However, the installer fails to work on 9.04 (even after installing the library files required). After a bit of research I found some recommendations for a softphone called Twinkle.
Twinkle was easy to install using the Synaptic Package Manager and then was easy to configure using the same SIP account settings as we would normally use in Windows or Mac softphone installations. I had it making a call within about three minutes from selecting it for download. So far, I therefore recommend Twinkle for use on Ubuntu computers.
Do you have any other softphone preferences or other softphone experiences for running on Ubuntu?
Monday, 26 October 2009
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