Mac OS X to Linux Video Chat
One of our programmers works remotely from Asturias, and we've been looking into ways to be able to get some pair-programming sessions going, in spite of the distance.
Since he's on Linux and uses vim as his primary editor, a simple setup with the unix utility 'screen', ssh and vim did the trick as far as working together on the code (I'm more of a TextMater, but have enough experience with vim, that changing editor is not much of a problem for me).
Figuring out the best way to communicate while programming was a bit more tricky, since we aimed for getting both video and audio. Skype works well for audio, but didn't seem to have video for Linux. We spent quite a bit trying to get Ekiga and XMeeting to talk together, but we never managed to get the video+audio signal to come through.
In the end we tried out WengoPhone, and this solved our problems. Didn't take any fiddling with setup or configuration, worked right out of the box, and both audio and video quality seems fine. So if you're having problem getting video chat to work between Mac and Linux, try out Wengo!
Since he's on Linux and uses vim as his primary editor, a simple setup with the unix utility 'screen', ssh and vim did the trick as far as working together on the code (I'm more of a TextMater, but have enough experience with vim, that changing editor is not much of a problem for me).
Figuring out the best way to communicate while programming was a bit more tricky, since we aimed for getting both video and audio. Skype works well for audio, but didn't seem to have video for Linux. We spent quite a bit trying to get Ekiga and XMeeting to talk together, but we never managed to get the video+audio signal to come through.
In the end we tried out WengoPhone, and this solved our problems. Didn't take any fiddling with setup or configuration, worked right out of the box, and both audio and video quality seems fine. So if you're having problem getting video chat to work between Mac and Linux, try out Wengo!
