[GnomeMeeting-list] Re: Gnomemeeting application

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Hi,

	
Le samedi 02 avril 2005 à 14:22 +0200, Giuseppe Marciante a écrit :
> Dear Mr. Damien Sandras,
> 
>  
> 
> my name is Giuseppe Marciante, I live in Rome in Italy, and I am a
> student of economics engineering at University of Rome “Tor
> Vergata” (www.uniroma2.it).
> 
>  
> 
> I’d like to use some older and low performances computers like 486 for
> video conferencing over dial-up by gnomemeeting. This means that on
> this computers I want to install only a Linux kernel and gnomemeeting
> and no others applications like KDE or GNOME.
> 
>  
> 
> I have some questions for you:
> 
> 1. What are the minimum computer performances? You think that 486 is
> good or I need more higher processors? And about RAM and video memory?
> 


I'm not really sure about that, the best is probably to try. You can
compile gnomemeeting with --disable-gnome to minimize the performances.
I remember having run the first release of GnomeMeeting on a Pentium
133MHz with 32MB of RAM without problem. But 486 is perhaps too short
for video and audio (it has to encode and decode), but the best is to
try.

>  
> 
> 2. What is the minimum space that I need to install the kernel,
> gnomemeeting and its libraries? Also if hard disk is worst can I use a
> compact flash disk that is more cheaper?
> 
>  

Yes I guess so. It shouldn't take more than 20 to 40 MB when compiled
without gnome.


> 
> 3. Some of my student friends come in Rome from other cities of Italy.
> I’d like that all students of my university can video conferencing
> with their family. Generally University’s computers run Windows or Mac
> Os. So I’d like to register a Website and when a student access to my
> website from a Windows or Mac OS machine and if their family have a
> computer with gnomemeeting they can video communicate. Which means
> that my website became like a place when you can video communicate.
> How can I do to organize this? What I have to put on my website? I
> include on this mail a jpg image where I tried to explain better my
> problem.
> 
>  

You probably need a JAVA applet that supports H.323. Or a CALLTO link
that will launch Netmeeting on windows.

> 
> 4. Also I’ d like to receive more information about gnomemeeting and
> it’s functionally structure.
> 
>  

Just ask :)

But generally everything is in the FAQ and in the manual.

> 
> I hope that you can help me because I’m not so expert on Linux but I’d
> like to learn more.
> 
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> 
> Best
> 
>  
> 
> Giuseppe Marciante
> 
> 
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