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Gizmo Project on Linux Broken (for me at least)

It looks like the fine folks at Gizmo Project have released a new version of their client for Linux. The good news is that they support straight Debian and Fedora Core 4 installations in addition to Linspire. The bad news: the client won’t start. It gives me an error: error while MediaEngine::init()

Well at least misery loves company because other people have ran into the same problem.

Skype frequently locks up the audio device on Linux, so it’s not as if that’s a better choice.


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