Ring - ArchWiki

# Ring

From ArchWiki

Ring is a new peer-to-peer communication solution, offering voice, video and chat in a decentralised and secure way. It is being developed by Savoir-faire Linux, a Canadian company specialising in Free Software.

The ancestor of Ring is SFLphone, a portable SIP/AIX software phone, also developed by Savoir-faire Linux. Ring retains most of the audio and SIP capabilities of SFLphone, while adding a Bittorrent-like DHT to completely avoid dependency on servers, and offering video and chat communication.

Additionally, Ring has a clean separation between daemon and user interface. The supported platforms are GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac OSX and Android.

## Installation

Ring is currently packaged in [community], with some third-party clients in AUR. You can choose between several versions:

- official Gnome client, weekly/monthly snapshot: ring-gnome
- unofficial KDE client, stable version: ring-kde
- Gnome client, latest git version: ring-gnome-gitAUR
- KDE client, latest git version: ring-kde-gitAUR

## Usage

You can use the desktop launcher provided by your desktop environment, or run the `ring.cx` command as user:

    $ ring.cx

It will detect which client is installed (Gnome or KDE) and run it. The daemon is launched automatically by clients.

Category:

- Voice over IP