Articles & Reviews
News Archive
Forums
Premium
Contact
Categories

Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals

Nextcloud Rolls Out Audio/Video/Chat Support

Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 11 January 2018 at 06:38 AM EST. 13 Comments

The Nextcloud cloud hosting software forked from ownCloud now has audio/video/chat abilities.

Nextcloud Talk is a new offering from Nextcloud to offer communication and collaboration capabilities to complement the software's file sync/share capabilities.

Nextcloud Talk is an optional add-on to Nextcloud and makes use of WebRTC for audio/video communication, including screen-sharing support. Mobile support is also being worked on too with new Android and iOS apps.

Nextcloud Talk; screenshot courtesy Nextcloud.

Those wishing to learn more about Nextcloud Talk can do so via Frank Karlitschek's blog, the founder of ownCloud and Nextcloud. The code for this new component continues to be hosted on GitHub.

13 Comments

Valkey Celebrates Its First Stable Release As Open-Source Redis Fork

Servo Driving Modularity To Support Different JavaScript Engines

Vim Lands XDG Base Directory Specification Support

OpenJPH 0.11 Works Toward Low-Latency High-Throughput JPEG-2000 (HTJ2K)

Dbus-Broker 36 Released For This Fastest D-Bus Implementation

About The Author

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.