Is there a Skype replacement voice app?

Has anybody setup Raspberry Pi as cheap desktop PC for their family? I would like to do that but first think I stumbled is Skype. My sister studies abroad so she and my mother talk a lot on Skype, and there is no Skype version for Raspberry Pi (arm cpu). Is there any other VOIP app that works as great as Skype and is easy for parents to use? Video is not a strict requirement but a nice to have feature... There is some talk on Raspberry Pi forums that MAYBE Skype will be able to run someday, but not today - http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1891
Answer:

After looking long and hard it looks like http://mumble.sourceforge.net/ is best replacement for Skype. It needs a server but it is much easier to configure than Asterisk.

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Asterisk Asterisk is an open source PBX. Someone has a http://www.raspberry-asterisk.org/ with a Debian image on which Asterisk is installed. There is also some evidence on the http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=70730#p70730 it is working.

Alex Chamberlain

I think that https://www.linphone.org may be worth consideration, especially as it is also a videophone, and is still actively maintained.

David Mackney

I would use http://linux-projects.org for two-way audio/video in the browser. http://www.linux-projects.org/downloads/screenshots/webrtc-twoway.png. It works with Jitsi Meet too.

strumpet

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