On January 23, 2015 9:24:47 PM AEDT, "Stefan G. Weichinger" <li...@xunil.at> 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? > > >Any quick recommendations? > >Thanks, Stefan
You can try something like Tox: https://tox.im. It has clients both for Windows and Linux. For me it works fine. It's a p2p Skype analog. Alex.