Gmail Video & Voice Chat Comes To Linux

[elanthis]

Yay for artificial software incompatibility barriers for otherwise perfectly cross-distro-compatible binaries!

[Obscene_CNN]

Sadly their plug in appears to require a multilib install for 64bit distros . I'm greatly disappointed in Google. I expect more from them than Adobe. How hard is it to compile a full 64bit version? I would think that they would want the performance of 64 bits instead of thunking the processor back to 32bit mode.

[DoDoENT]

There should be a .tgz tarball so that it'll be a simple matter to make a PKGBUILD to generate a package for Arch

Someone has already put it in AUR...

I've just installed with 'yaourt google-talkplugin'...

[tmpdir]

Hasn't gmail voice and video been available for quite a while on Empathy and Pidgin?

yep, but this is about support through their own client.