A buddy of mine told me that Ventrilo doesn’t play nice with Wine (or at least his build anyway), and told me about Mangler, an open source alternative to waiting another x number of years for Ventrilo to put out an official Linux binary. Currently, said guy is using Mangler to stream mp3s to our vent server, which is pretty sweet. You can use it for talking with people too, if that’s your thing.

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 1.0 includes:

• Connecting to Ventrilo 3.x servers
• Keyboard push to talk
• Mouse button push to talk
• Speex and GSM support
• Per-user volume controls
• Notification sound effects
• Setting your comment and URL

Check out Mangler, the Ventrilo Compatible Client for Linux