Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > > I communicate with an admin at a customer ... > > we write dozens of emails and tickets and often it would be simpler to > have some kind of chat or so. > > I'd like to avoid skype etc ... so I think of installing something on > one of their gentoo-servers that allows us to run a simple chat. > > I run (surprise) gentoo with Gnome 3.14 ... he runs Windows 7 or 8 ... > > What could I set up? > > Maybe useable with gnome empathy? > With a simple windows-client for the other side?
I suppose you're referring to 'written' chat. At work, on a local network, I'm using pidgin client with SIPE plugin (x11-plugins/pidgin-sipe ). Works fine to chat with co-workers using Microsoft Lync or Office Communicator. File transfer never worked, though. The server side is Microsoft, I suppose, in any case out of my reach. raffaele
