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Mangler – A native Linux Ventrilo Client!

Mangler is an open source VOIP client capable of connecting to Ventrilo 3.x servers. It is capable of performing almost all standard user functionality found in a Windows Ventrilo client. Mangler is developed and maintained by Eric Kilfoil and Daniel Sloof. -mangler.org

In my experience, using Ventrilo on Linux (using Wine) has always been troublesome at best. Often I would have to resort to using hacked patches, or giving up some functionality just so I could use Ventrilo while raiding. Some newer versions would completely break functionality on Wine. This problem has all come to an end with the release of a fantastic new software called Mangler. It was released a month ago. It is a native Ventrilo client for Linux systems. I have used this software flawlessly for a few weeks now. I personally use this software while playing World of Warcraft on Wine. The interface is clean, and supports PTT functionality (both keyboard and mouse options). Mangler also claims to support both GSM and Speex codecs, thought I have only tested it with Speex. Mangler also supports individual user volume control. This is quite a list of functionality for a version 1.0. I consider this a must have piece of software if you need Ventrilo on a Linux system.