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Twinkle (software)

Twinkle
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Developer(s) Michel de Boer, Luboš Doležel
Initial release 27 April 2005
Stable release 1.10.0 (July 15, 2016; 9 months ago (2016-07-15))
Repository github.com/LubosD/twinkle.git
Written in C++
Operating system Linux
Type VoIP
License GPL (free software)
Website twinkle.dolezel.info twinklephone.com

Twinkle is a free and open source software application for (VoIP) voice communications in IP networks, such as the Internet. It is designed for Linux operating systems and uses the Qt toolkit for its graphical user interface. For call signaling it employs the (SIP). It also features direct IP-to-IP calls. Media streams are transmitted via the (RTP) which may be encrypted with the (SRTP) and the ZRTP security protocols.

Since version 1.3.2 (September 2008), Twinkle supports message exchange and a buddy-list feature for presence notification, showing the online-status of predefined communications partners (provider-support needed).

In 2016, a Qt5 version is out.



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