I haven't tried it at all, but it seems to me kopete (KDE's
msn/aim/yahoo/etc client) supports video chat. Also my Nokia N800 has
a built in camera and it uses skype/ekiga (I think) for video VoIP. As
far as cameras go, I'm the wrong person to ask (some of us are too
ugly to be photographed).

On 6/16/08, Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> My relatives are shaming me into using a web-cam for our chats; they even
> say this Internet thingy will catch on, or something.  Anyway, I'm
> looking for a Linux-friendly web-cam.  I've heard good things about
> Logitech, but they have 1001 models.  What's needed, what's useful and
> what can be ignored about webcams?  Are there some models that can be
> unwrapped, connected to the first USB port and just getting them to
> work with any recent Ubuntu/Fedora distro?
>
> Are there any programs on Linux that interoperate with some web-cam
> enabled chat programs on Windows?  (I know about IRC, but my UTF-8
> rendition is definitely not that flattering).
>
> Thanks,
> florin
>
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