I haven't tried it at all, but it seems to me kopete (KDE's msn/aim/yahoo/etc client) supports video chat. Also my Nokia N800 has a built in camera and it uses skype/ekiga (I think) for video VoIP. As far as cameras go, I'm the wrong person to ask (some of us are too ugly to be photographed). On 6/16/08, Florin Iucha <florin at iucha.net> wrote: > Howdy, > > My relatives are shaming me into using a web-cam for our chats; they even > say this Internet thingy will catch on, or something. Anyway, I'm > looking for a Linux-friendly web-cam. I've heard good things about > Logitech, but they have 1001 models. What's needed, what's useful and > what can be ignored about webcams? Are there some models that can be > unwrapped, connected to the first USB port and just getting them to > work with any recent Ubuntu/Fedora distro? > > Are there any programs on Linux that interoperate with some web-cam > enabled chat programs on Windows? (I know about IRC, but my UTF-8 > rendition is definitely not that flattering). > > Thanks, > florin > > -- > Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. > http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 >