[ale] Skype Linux client updated (finally!)

Don Kramer donkramer at gmail.com
Thu Jun 14 23:18:50 EDT 2012


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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