Fedora packagers are now officially out of their mind

Try installing MySQL Workbench (GUI client for MySQL). You'll end up getting mariadb (a full blown MySQL server) too.

Get it? You want a DB client, but you have to get DB server too. Even if you do not need it. Even if you do not have disk space for it. Screw you, Fedora user! Sucks to be you.

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Another Linux myth: 'We have voice communication!..'

There is much noise about voice in the open source world.

People use this and that application for voice and video calls with varying success. Truth is, most of the time this is not working as advertised.

Let's look at the XMPP clients advertized as supporting voice and video.

Gajim

Gajim is a Python application using 3d party library for voice/video suppot. That 3d party library is available only under Linux. Does Gajim voice work under Linux then? No, it does not inter-operate with the other XMPP clients. Perhaps one Gajim works with another Gajim, but then we are not talking about voice over XMPP - we are talking about Gajim working with Gajim, which is no longer 'voice over XMPP' - it is voice from Gajim to Gajim. I do not know if it works actually, as I don't have anyone else out there who are using Gajim to test.

Jitsi

Jitsi is a one trick pony. First of all, it requires lots of real estate to work. Jitsi is a Java 1.6 application which uses 3d party native libraries for virtually everything. If these native libraries crash your system, you are responsible, not Jitsi team, even if no other similar software (Skype? Real Audio? Adobe Premiere? Virtual Dub? SIP softphones?) ever crashed it. more...

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