On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 09:11:55 +0200 juh <juh+deb...@mailbox.org> wrote:
> Am 01.04.20 um 01:09 schrieb Celejar: > > I spend some time today trying to find a libre alternative to Zoom, > > preferably one in the Debian repos, but came up empty. The closest I > > found were indeed Jitsi Meet (a part of the much larger Jitsi project), > > and BigBlueButton, libre but designed to be installed on a Ubuntu > > system. I'm actually puzzled by why there doesn't seem to be any easy, > > solid libre alternative to Zoom. > > My hosting cooperative Hostsharing runs BigBlueButton on Debian > machines. We recently made a stress test with 47 participants to see > what requirements are needed in reality. > > BBB is running pretty stable on the server side. Participants should > have a decent internet connection as bandwith is paramount especially if > many participants stream video and audio. > > We wrote a report about our test in German. > > https://www.hostsharing.net/blog/2020/03/30/bigbluebutton-im-lasttest/ > > Use a translation server if you want to read it all but the figures > should be clear enough. > > Don't feed the next big corp that spies on us. ;-) Thanks - I'd love to avoid feeding them to the extent that I can reasonably do so ;) How easy is it in practice to install on Debian? The following statement in the FAQ scared me off: ***** BigBlueButton requires Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit. See Install BigBlueButton. We (the core developers) have not installed BigBlueButton on any other version of Ubuntu. It probably won’t work. ***** https://docs.bigbluebutton.org/support/faq.html If the core developers are skeptical that it'll work on even other versions of Ubuntu, that doesn't sound all that promising for Debian ... Celejar
