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Google Brings Voice and Video Chat to Linux

Frederic Lardinois

19 Aug 2010 — 1 min read

Google just announced that Linux users can now finally use voice and video chat in Gmail. For now, this is an Ubunutu-only feature, though the company plans to add support for other Debian– and RPM-based Linux distributions (like Red Hat and Fedora) in the near future.

Until now, these features were only available to Windows and Mac users. For these platforms, Google introduced voice and video chat in November 2008.

To get started, Ubuntu users can download the required plugin here.

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