Mumble is good code, easy to get running

In an effort to attract actual users to civilfritz (and, by extension, encourage some certain people to join me in some Pathfinder, I’ve set up a preliminary Mumble server at mumble.civilfritz.net.

Mumble’s server application, Murmur, was already included in the repositories for Ubuntu 10.10, and it basically installed ready-to-go. What’s more, the client application worked flawlessly on my Debian Squeeze netbook.

Memory use was even reasonable. An idle server consumed 3-4MB, with each additional user (up to my sample size of 2) using an additional 2-3MB. I think that’s reasonable, anyway. Per-user memory overhead will probably drop with more users, too.