[ale] Skype Linux client updated (finally!)

Scott Plante splante at insightsys.com
Fri Jun 15 11:51:20 EDT 2012


Yeah, Digium used to offer a Skype channel license for Asterisk but that got cancelled shortly after Microsoft bought them. 

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From: "Boris Borisov" <bugyatl at gmail.com> 
To: "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org> 
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 11:43:18 PM 
Subject: Re: [ale] Skype Linux client updated (finally!) 

I'm trying to avoid skype when is possible since there is no alternative program that speaks skype language. 

On Thursday, June 14, 2012, Don Kramer < donkramer at gmail.com > wrote: 
> still to have to capability to Skype natively in Linux when the other party wants to, I like having that option. I did install it on my primary laptop running Debian Squeeze 6.0.5, brief tryout it's certainly stable in my brief experience with it that the previous Linux version that wasn't for me. 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Robert L. Harris < robert.l.harris at gmail.com > wrote: 
>> 
>> Conversation: 
>> Me: Hey bill, how goes it? 
>> Bill: Not bad, what's new? 
>> Me: oh WTF, look t this stupid ad? 
>> Bill: yeah, those are annoying.. 
>> Me: Hang on, I'll call you back on google talk in a sec. 
>> 
>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Shawn < taaj.shawn at gmail.com > wrote: 
>>> 
>>> Skype gives an inch and JD wants a mile =P 
>>> Sent via BlackBerry 
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message----- 
>>> From: JD < jdp at algoloma.com > 
>>> Sender: ale-bounces at ale.org 
>>> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:09:34 
>>> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts< ale at ale.org > 
>>> Reply-To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts < ale at ale.org > 
>>> Subject: Re: [ale] Skype Linux client updated (finally!) 
>>> 
>>> On 06/14/2012 07:53 PM, Lawrence Hamblin wrote: 
>>> > So, on the same day the news breaks out that Skype is going to put ads in its 
>>> > calls (and actually expects us to have conversations about them), Skype for 
>>> > Linux finally gets updated to version 4.0, after being on 2.2 beta for who knows 
>>> > how long. 
>>> > 
>>> > It'll be a while before I can try it out, since I typically only use new 
>>> > versions of packages that the Gentoo devs have stabilized. Still, it's 
>>> > available for download, along with the blog post 
>>> > < http://blogs.skype.com/linux/2012/06/skype_40_for_linux.html > to prove it. 
>>> > 
>>> > No guarantees that it's better, though. Skype has gotten worse since Microsoft 
>>> > bought it. 
>>> > 
>>> > Lawrence 
>>> > 
>>> 
>>> Did anyone see if they have a CLI version? I'm tired of running xvfb just to 
>>> get a connection to skype from a server and Sip2Sis. 
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