Free telephone software for linux

Gnome-o-phone (gphone for short) is an internet telephone. In other words, if you and your friend have computers with sound cards and network connections, you can use gphone to talk to each other and save on phone bills. Gphone is definitely a work in progress and you probably shouldnt bet your business on it; if it breaks you can keep both pieces. Dont be too hard on the program, though -- the user interface is a bit rough but gphone does work pretty well.
As the name implies, it aims to be fully gnome-groovy, but that hasnt quite happened yet. Gphone is definitely a work in progress and you probably shouldnt bet your
business on it. Dont be too hard on the program, though -- although the user interface is mighty rough, gphone does actually work pretty well. Ive only tested the program over ethernet, but the data rate should be low enough to work over a reasonable modem connection.
The protocol is nominally RTP/RTCP, and gphone complies well enough with the standard to be able to talk to speakfreely. Ive only tested the UNIX version of speakfreely, but as long as you tell sfmike to use RTP and GSM compression, it seems to work fine. Maybe someday Ill add in support for other codecs; encryption is a little less likely
because Id just as soon not open that legal can of worms. One easy way to get some security would be to modify my program rtptunnel to tunnel the RTP protocol through a SSL socket instead of a straight TCP socket.
Gphone supports full duplex if your sound card has this feature. Ive had good luck using the ALSA drivers for my SB16.
Enhancements:
- gphone/gphone.c: Add Jorge Gomes Silvas patch to fix config button crash.

Blue Smiley Organizer is Web-based script to manage your bookmarks, diary, reminders, to-do lists, contacts, knowledge, and images in a multi-user environment.
Blue Smiley Organizer also includes its own live support help system, blogs, themes, and a discussion forum.
Main features:
- Prioritize your bookmarks: Tell BlueSmiley how important a website is to you and how often you want to visit the link (e.g. once a month) and a list of bookmarks will be generated with the most urgent bookmarks at the top of the list.
- You can also keep a diary, manage your To-Do List and save email addresses and telephone numbers with the Contact Management. Add important vocabulary, snippets of code, etc to the categorized knowledge list.
- BlueSmiley reminds you of birthdays, TV shows, appointments, etc.
- Want to offer Live Support for your website without forking out money every month? BlueSmiley offers it for free.
- Social Bookmarking: Share your bookmarks on your personal webpage.
- You can also show RSS Feeds within this Online Organize

Globe7 is a soft phone with integrated voice, video, IM, and real-time video streaming, powered by online advertising. The project allows you to make free calls from PC to PC (voice and video), PC to mobile, and PC to landline by watching videos in Globe7 TV.
Main features:
Phone
- Globe7 converts your laptop or desktop computer into a second telephone. You can make calls to any phone across the Globe. You can also receive unlimited free incoming calls from any landline or mobile phone. With Globe7, PC to PC calling is absolutely FREE
Globe7 TV
- Globe7 presents you incessant entertainment with free video streaming. You can watch video clips in different categories and you can also earn FREE talk time to your Globe7 account. Video on Demand and matured pay per view content are coming soon
Phone Book
- You can add your non Globe7 members to your phone book and make calls directly from the phone book
Search
- You can search the Web while making calls or chatting with your friends
My Earnings
- Check the details of amount earned by watching Globe7 TV
My channel
- You can upload your video files and share it among the friends up to a capacity of 1GB
Instant Messaging (Chat)
- You can send messages to your Globe7 friends who are online by using the Chat option
Follow Me Service
- With Follow Me Service facility, you can get your calls redirected to your landline or mobile when you are offline
SMS
- You can send SMS to any mobile across the Globe using the SMS feature available in Globe7
My calls
- You can view the list of incoming calls, outcalls and missed calls
View Channel
- For viewing the video content of your buddies you can choose this option

TCDialer is a DTMF dialer. Designed to resemble telephone keypad. Useful for those who end up in a hotel with a pulse phone.

DTMF generator for those without a touch-tone phone.

Push the buttons. Hear the DTMF tones. Pretty simple.

BlueamaroK is an amaroK script that controls basic functions of the amaroK player with a SonyEriccson mobile telephone through a bluetooth connection.

Using:

Pair your PC and phone, run rfcomm to bind the connectio to a serial device, for example /dev/rfcomm0, and run BlueamaroK.

GNU Bayonne, the telecommunications application server of the GNU project, offers free, scalable, media independent software environment for development and deployment of telephony solutions for use with current and next generation telephone networks.
Building from source:
Before you can build and use GNU Bayonne, you must build and install GNU Common C++, GNU ccAudio, and GNU ccScript. These packages are all part of the GNU system and may be downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/ or from any GNU mirror site. The first package you should download and build is GNU Common C++, and you should download the latest release version, which will be found in ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/commoncpp.
After downloading GNU Common C++, you can unpack it with:
tar -zxvf commoncpp-{VERSION}.tar.gz
Substitute VERSION with the version of your package.
Before you install GNU Common C++, you may wish to consider if you will make use of XML and SQL support in GNU Bayonne. If you intend to use these features, then you need to have the Gnome XML library (libxml2). This library is already installed as part of a normal Gnome desktop system, and very often used by many other applications, so it is likely you will already have it on your system. If you are on an RPM based system, and intend to use XML support, libxml2 is often split between a main and ``devel package. You will need to make sure your ``libxml2-devel package is installed, or that a ``xml2-config command exists in your bin path for GNU Common C++ and Bayonne to detect and include XML support.
To install GNU Common C++, enter the commoncpp directory you have unpacked to and run the ``configure script. For GNU/Linux systems, this script can be ran simply with ./configure, and GNU Common C++ will be installed to your /usr/local directory. If you wish to install GNU Common C++ to /usr, then enter ./configure -prefix=/usr. Once configure completes, simply perform a ``make install.
Next, you should download GNU current versions of GNU ccScript from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ccscript and the GNU ccAudio package from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ccaudio. These packages depend on GNU Common C++ being installed before they can be made. After downloading these packages, unpack each one similar to above. You will then run the ``configure script from each of these packages using the same options you choose to use when building GNU Common C++ (if any). Then simply perform a ``make install.
At this point you should also have installed any device drivers and link libraries that were part of or required by the computer telephony hardware you will be using. If you are using a CAPI based computer telephony card, then many GNU/Linux distributions already include the capi library needed for building GNU Bayonne and you need not have anything else installed. Many non-capi cards include link libraries and drivers that must be present for the card to work and to be controlled by external programs. Please follow the notes in the different hardware sections based on your hardware and make sure your hardware is working correctly before you download and install Bayonne.
You may now download GNU Bayonne from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bayonne. Once you download the GNU Bayonne package, you will unpack it as before, and you may then enter the package directory and run the ``configure script. The Bayonne configure can be passed a number of options that control what features will be enabled or disabled in GNU Bayonne. These can be used to tailor the server image for specific applications where only a select set of GNU Bayonne features and capabilities are required. A description of how to tailore GNU Bayonne is described in the next section.
If you do not wish to tailor GNU Bayonne, and in most cases, it is unessisary to do so, then you can simply run the ``configure script as is with default options. The configure script will test to see what computer telephony support exists on your machine, and will then build GNU Bayonne with drivers for whatever computer telephony support it has found. You may then use ``make to compile GNU Bayonne. Before you perform ``make install, review the section on installing your new server.
It is important to make sure the libraries required for your computer telephony hardware are present first because GNU Bayonnes configure script automatically detects which computer telephony card libraries are present and selects which computer telephony drivers GNU Bayonne will be built with. If Bayonne is installed before your computer telephony hardware and libraries, then it will likely fail to use your hardware since it did not detect it at configure time. However, you can always re-run the configure script in the package to enable GNU Bayonne to build drivers for your card if you change hardware or forget to install your hardware first.
Enhancements:
- Much improved MySQL operation.
- Dialogic globalcall call blocking issues have been fixed for very high call volume.