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Tox: A simple, distributed, free, secure Skype replacement. Now alpha with A/V

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Tox: A simple, distributed, free, secure Skype replacement. Now alpha with A/V

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Post by irungentoo »

Tox is now usable and has reached alpha (in other words, it is mostly working, but lacking some features, bugs might be apparent).

uTox is a lightweight (minimal dependencies) Tox client for Windows, Linux and (experimentally) Android. It supports text chat, file transfers, audio and video calling, desktop sharing (both as video and as screenshots). It also supports text-only group chats (with audio/video being worked on).

For more info about Tox and uTox, see the project links below.

Windows updater/downloader:

https://jenkins.libtoxcore.so/job/utox_update_win32/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/utox-updater.zip

Linux nightlies:

64-bit:

https://jenkins.libtoxcore.so/job/uTox_linux_amd64/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/utox/utox_linux_amd64.tar.xz

32-bit:

https://jenkins.libtoxcore.so/job/uTox_linux_i686/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/utox/utox_linux_i686.tar.xz

If you use an operating system other than windows or linux (OSX or android) or want to try other Tox clients, see this page:

https://wiki.tox.im/Binaries

Project links:

Official Tox website:

https://tox.im

uTox Github:

https://github.com/notsecure/uTox

toxcore Github:

https://github.com/irungentoo/toxcore

Other links:

qTox Github:

https://github.com/tux3/qTox

Antox Github:

https://github.com/Astonex/Antox

Note about adding friends in Tox: in the settings area of uTox you can find your Tox ID, and you give that out to your friends so that they can add you. To solve the inconvenience of sharing long IDs, Tox also supports "DNS names", for example "groupbot@toxme.se". You can register your own @toxme.se name on toxme.se

Tox is alpha software, bugs are expected.

Feel free to post any questions or feedback or visit us on IRC: #tox on freenode.

Re: Tox: A simple, distributed, free, secure Skype replacement. Now alpha with A/V

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Post by dang »

Posts without URLs are penalized. You might want to repost this using the most appropriate URL, then add your text as a comment to the post. If you like, email us at hn@ycombinator.com with a link to the new post and we'll look it over for you.

Edit: this one seems to be doing fine.

Re: Tox: A simple, distributed, free, secure Skype replacement. Now alpha with A/V

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Post by TheSisb2 »

dang wrote: post #4

Posts without URLs are penalized. You might want to repost this using the most appropriate URL, then add your text as a comment to the post. If you like, email us at hn@ycombinator.com with a link to the new post and we'll look it over for you. Edit: this one seems to be doing fine.

Reading HN full time as a job must be extremely enjoyable. :)

Re: Tox: A simple, distributed, free, secure Skype replacement. Now alpha with A/V

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Post by gue5t »

irungentoo wrote: post #6
gue5t wrote: post #5

Can you compare this to Jabber+Jingle?

Tox is distributed meaning it doesn't rely on any central servers.

This would be good to note in the post, since right now it's easy to decide not to click anything because there are so many links and the salient feature is never mentioned prior to visiting them!

Re: Tox: A simple, distributed, free, secure Skype replacement. Now alpha with A/V

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Post by notsecure »

JellyYelly wrote: post #3

Any chance of an iOS client any time soon?

Not any time soon, as iOS isn't very FLOSS friendly (in fact, the GPL is not compatible with the Apple app store). There have been talks of making a licensing exception, but the iOS client with the most progress (https://github.com/Jman012/Toxicity) isn't functional at the moment.
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