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Skype 4.0 for Linux
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Re: Skype 4.0 for Linux
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm inclined to agree with your points, I always preferred the linux client over the windows one, but skype just gets on my nerves recently. My team has switched to mumble for meetings and stuff and we find it immeasurably better. Plus, channels are a much better method for general collaboration than the outdated concept of conference calls.
what do you use for a mumble server? I would happily choose this if there were an easy to use free version like skype.
I use µMurmur from the OpenWRT project.
Re: Skype 4.0 for Linux
#63The best thing about how big skype is is that they have to maintain backwards compatibility (hardware skype phones that can't upgrade) so you can use whatever old version you want and it has to be supported by them. Which means you can stick to the old version which works fine without having to suffer through the new and "improved" glitzy version that is popup crazy and wants to hog all your system resources for what…
> they have to maintain backwards compatibility
Well, no they don't. They can drop any legacy client whenever they wish. Microsoft could even try to make it sound like they're doing a good thing by removing unmaintainable legacy stuff they inherited from Skype.
Microsoft is not really required to maintain backwards compatibility with Skypes legacy stuff. It is possible they updated the Linux client for exactly this reason; update what you can, depreciate the rest for the good of everyone else.
Re: Skype 4.0 for Linux
#64OMG THIS IS FUCKING GREAT
Re: Skype 4.0 for Linux
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair, I wasn't presuming anything. While I applaud the release of the Linux version, I was merely trying to show that Microsoft's stewardship of Skype seems to be headed in a rather unsavory direction.
How are advertisements unsavory? Is this same opinion of yours applicable against google, for the ads on it's search engine? Just curious. I've never had anything against ads personally unless they're intrusive -- or that my data is being bought & sold to show them. Not that I trust $vendor to keep that data private, but showing me the latest advertisement for some movie coming out next week isn't going to ruin my ex…
I too find advertisements in general unsavory.
Re: Skype 4.0 for Linux
#66Curious question, is there any good open source application out there supporting voice and video? Possibly, multiple people as in G+ Hangout?
Re: Skype 4.0 for Linux
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
How are advertisements unsavory? Is this same opinion of yours applicable against google, for the ads on it's search engine? Just curious. I've never had anything against ads personally unless they're intrusive -- or that my data is being bought & sold to show them. Not that I trust $vendor to keep that data private, but showing me the latest advertisement for some movie coming out next week isn't going to ruin my ex…
Google doesn't portray its ads as content.
right that's why they don't show right above where the actual content of search results is displayed....oh wait...
Re: Skype 4.0 for Linux
#68Ooh! Ooh! Does it have the new Conversation Ads feature? http://blogs.skype.com/en/2012/06/skype_advertising_update.h... I, for one, cannot WAIT to see these new ads, which Microsoft describes as "content that could spark additional topics of conversation that are relevant to Skype users." Isn't that great? Ads are now "content." And the motivation isn't to make a bundle of money on ads, it's to "spark conversations.…
How else could they possibly justify spending $8billion on it?
Skype has been a disruptive technology within the phone industry. Combined with Microsoft's mobile operating system and perhaps a hardware partner such as Nokia, it is quite possible that we may say mobile "phones" that completely bypass the current established carriers.
To put it another way, how often are most people away from a WiFi network when they make a call? Or more importantly, when they access a data stream with their device? $8 billion for Microsoft is not a significant amount when it comes to purchasing growth, and the article isn't about Facetime for Linux.
Re: Skype 4.0 for Linux
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
On Ubuntu the dependencies were already installed by the old version, so I could install this new version without anything else required.
My old amd64 version do not require that much dependencies only coupe of packages... and thats it.. Here list of my dependencies for skype 4: bluez-alsa:i386 glib-networking:i386 gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 gstreamer0.10-x:i386 gtk2-engines:i386 gtk2-engines-murrine:i386 gtk2-engines-oxygen:i386 gtk2-engines-pixbuf:i386 ia32-libs ia32-libs-multiarch:i386 ibus-gtk:i386 lib32asound2 lib32gcc1 lib32stdc++6 libaa1:i3…
Yeah, I forgot to tell that I'm using the Ubuntu x86 version, not the x64 one.
Re: Skype 4.0 for Linux
#70Curious question, is there any good open source application out there supporting voice and video? Possibly, multiple people as in G+ Hangout?
On linux Empathy, Gajim, Jitsi, and Pidgin all support audio and video chat. I believe they're all interoperable with each other and with the video chat in gmail.
I think that Jitsi (formerly named SIP Communicator) supports audio and video chat on Windows and OS X as well. I don't think that any of these projects support video conference calls yet, but it's on the "near future" section of Jitsi's roadmap.