Gmail Video & Voice Chat Comes To Linux

For those that enjoy using Gmail for e-mail and chat but have been missing out on the video and voice chat capabilities when using this Google service, there's now official video and voice chat support available for Linux. Gmail video and voice support was added nearly two years ago and has been supported under Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X, but released last night was the first Linux plug-in offering this multimedia support.

Right now this voice and video support from Google only supports Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distributions, but RPM support for Red Hat, Fedora, and others is said to be coming soon.

The Linux video chat announcement can be read on the Gmail blog and the voice and video chat support can be installed for Windows/Mac OS X/Linux from this Google chat page.

Thanks to Google's Tristan Schmelcher for working on this official Linux support and notifying us of its availability.