topic Re: Jabber for Linux in Collaboration Applications

Jabber for Linux

Justin Barksdale — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 03:49:38 GMT

Is there a planned Jabber for Linux version?

Message was edited on April 19, 2013: Lisa Marcyes from the Cisco Collaboration Community Team added community category and tags for greater ease in filtering (no change to content).

Re: Jabber for Linux

keglass — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:59:46 GMT

Thank you for posting to the Collaboration Community. A similar post was answered by Cisco earlier this year. Please refer here for more information.

https://communities.cisco.com/message/88469#88469

Hope that helps.

Kelli Glass

Moderator for the Cisco Collaboration Community

Re: Jabber for Linux

Neil Broadley — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:15:36 GMT

Kelli, that post was from March 2012. I'd be interested to know if there were any plans for an Ubuntu or Redhat based version of the Jabber client too.

Given how far behind the Mac client is in terms of functionality, I'd guess not though. And given how fragmented the client is on Android, I fear the worst generally.

However, it would be good to get an official steer on whether a linux version will (ever) be considered. Pidgin kind of works as an XMPP client, but lacks many of the nicer Cisco Jabber features on Windows sadly, such as visual voicemail or custom shortcuts.

Re: Jabber for Linux

cotang — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 16:50:26 GMT

Hello,

There are no plans at this time for a Jabber client on Ubuntu or Redhat.

Thanks

Connie

Re: Jabber for Linux

dennis.connolly — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:53:54 GMT

Would love to know if anyone has installed Windows OS over a Linux OS and run the Jabber Client?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Dennis Connolly

Re: Jabber for Linux

Mark Turpin — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:57:33 GMT

I have run 9.0 and 9.1 j4w in Windows 7 using Virtualbox on top of Ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10.

No problems.

Re: Jabber for Linux

bogdan.badiu — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 23:23:12 GMT

Hello,

It's not so nice of Cisco not to have a Jabber Version for a great OS like Linux.

Cisco released an MAC version, so it would be nice to release a Linux Version.

BR,

Bogdan

Re: Jabber for Linux

sarahweiss — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 12:51:12 GMT

considering the state of windows 8 and office, I as an administrator will have no alternative other than to switch all my clients to linux in the near future, should we then throw away our vcs package?

our do you just support rather unsecure devices like apple ios, mac os, windows and android?

Sarah

btw tried you android app - great work there!

Re: Jabber for Linux

qstyk — Tue, 06 Jan 2015 14:31:29 GMT

For many reasons, those that are actually responsible for installing, configuring, and maintaining Cisco environments prefer Linux over Windows. Worth noting, is that we're also the ones responsible for whether or not we recommend to our clients whether they should go with Jabber or Lync.

It's time for Linux support for Jabber.

-Jon

Re: Jabber for Linux

kayvansylvan — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:18:11 GMT

You might be able to use these instructions:

How do I connect a 3rd party XMPP client to Cisco's Jabber Video? - Super User

Re: Jabber for Linux

Tim Cappel — Wed, 13 May 2015 13:18:19 GMT

I know that Ubuntu has a native XMPP IM client that can be setup to use your Jabber IM functionality. I don't believe it has softphone/CSF integration, but you could use another SIP client for that. You have a few options, but non would be as good as simply having the Jabber client.

Re: Jabber for Linux

luke.hinds1 — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 12:32:17 GMT

Any further movement on this?

I work for a company with 60k employee's and a substantial amount of us use Linux. We find it really frustrating that windows & mac users can IM / Make Voice Calls / Start web ex meetings all in one application, where as we get half the features hacked into VoIP clients and a web browser, and no official support from Cisco.

Please consider getting a Linux client developed. I am not a spokesmen for my Companies IT policy, but me and others are starting to lean on them and push that they consider a product which supports all of its staff.

Re: Jabber for Linux

Alexey Smirnov — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 14:04:54 GMT

Maybe the only way to provide voice/video calling and IM in a single client for Linux users is to use Jabber Web SDK and embed it in a browser (https://developer.cisco.com/site/jabber-websdk/develop-and-test/integrated-jabber/index.gsp).

Apart from this marvelous demo (https://communities.cisco.com/community/developer/collaboration/jabber/blog/2015/03/17/jabber-sdk-chat-demo-with-material-design) has anyone succeeded in combining Web SDK into one interface?

Re: Jabber for Linux

jcapayne — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 01:15:08 GMT

Voice/video requires browser plugins and Cisco doesn't provide those for Linux.

Re: Jabber for Linux

driz — Sat, 24 Oct 2015 03:04:44 GMT

I brought supporting linux for both Jabber, spark, and webex up at Cisco Live Local Edition. Hopefully this gets some traction eventually.

Re: Jabber for Linux

jonathan perrin — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 21:49:16 GMT

Yes please. Bring a for Linux Jabber client , if we are to promote secure by default how can we recommend a client application runiing on the dominate deskttop OS that is not. Or is cisco solution that we use pidgin or other clients.

Re: Jabber for Linux

driz — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 17:08:21 GMT

While pidgin works pretty well, i'm seeing more and more that security is disallowing third party clients to connect to webex connect and/or IM&P on prem. We really need to get this moving forward. While I understand that there are some differences between android and linux, surely a framework is in place. Let's get this moving.

Re: Jabber for Linux

Daniel Ash — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 19:10:13 GMT

I have dabbled with Linux over the years. Since Windows 10 has destroyed transfer rates, I am finding myself using Linux more and more to transfer files for installs. Jabber and Webex are the only thing preventing me from running Linux exclusively. PLEASE spend some dev cycles around supporting the Linux community with these collaboration products. If Cisco is using Linux to host on the server side, why wouldn't they provide a Linux client side product?

Thanks!

Dan

Re: Jabber for Linux

WolSen000 — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 09:19:51 GMT

I would like to join the list to request Jabber to be available on Linux.

We have about 900 users but we are an (almost) Jabber only company. We try to use only Jabber and avoid desk-/hardphones wherever possible.

Most of our developers use Linux and by now we have to provide them deskphones. I know that there are third-party clients which can be integrated but the integration is not as good as a native Jabber application could be. Some would say it's really not acceptable.....

Thanks for considering the increasing demand of Jabber on Linux....

Re: Jabber for Linux

johnnybringer — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 19:37:09 GMT

What year is it? 2016. This is not 2000, or even 2008. The reality is that people often have to talk to client, vendors, professional contacts, etc. This forces them to use a client like Pidgin, or an other multi-protocol IM client, so they can IM to everyone they need to. Even in some very large organizations various groups can be on different IM services. At my work we have deployed Cisco Jabber, and it doesn't appear to work very well with 3rd party clients. Contacts are missing, or cannot tell who is on or off line. It's a complete mess, unless the user is using the Cisco Supplies client, but this means that a the user has to also run Pidgin as well to talk to all those other people in the world. Running 2 IM clients is not exact a perfect solution, and in my opinion is extremely burdensome on the user, but it's a good patch until something can be worked out. However there is the matter of all the users that run Linux, Ubuntu or Debian. Those people cannot use the Cisco Jabber client. I understand that 15 years ago Linux was ignoble on the desktop, but as of about 10 years ago it wasn't. Linux is born of the same openness that ushered in TCP/IP, which is what brought Cisco into assistance, and now they're chat client which uses open standards, and mostly likely some opensource software, doesn't work with Linux. This is hardly something that would be expected from an industry leader.

What can we, the humble users, do to convince Cisco that not supporting Linux is like cutting off your nose to spite your face?