Once upon a time a messageing client called YAHOO Messenger. Everything went fine till yahoo Inc. decided that the FreeBSD and Linux support should
be frozen. The end result: yahoo mess. for Linux ended up as a total MESS!

A few years ago, a buddy of mine showed me a very nice VoIP application called Skype. I was amazed that on a dialup line I could hear my friends on another continent loud and clear. Moreover, Skype was delivered as the same version on any platform.
What I just can't understand is WHY in the world, the developers @ Skype decided that the free OS's users (or at least the Linux users) shouldn't get the
opportunity to test a vide link on a UNIX-like platform?

Skype 2.0 Beta worked excellently with wine, but I still couldn't make my camera work under Linux with the (emulated) Skype.

Does anybody has any suggestions?
Thanx

Me neither. My skype 2.0 through wine crashes oftenly (for unknown reason) and for sure when I try to use my new webcam which is working in linux. But I have lost hope that there will be new skype for linux and I don't think there will be video skype for linux in less than 2 years.

My version of Wine is 0.9.5 on a Fedora Core 4-kernel 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4.
Try to upgrade your Wine version (if you didn't do it yet). Let me know if that works. I'm curious if skype 2 can use the Linux drivers that were provided for
a specific webcam.

My wine is 0.9.5 and skype is the official 2, however, I have only once managed to talk 37 minutes without crashing, most of the times it crashes in the beginning.

When I put the camera and made a call it tried to use it and crashed again. And it does it all over the time. And as a matter of fact with the camera it became more unstable and crashing.

I had the crashes of skype2 with wine 0.9.4 also :?

I have a suspicion that nowthat evay bought Skype, there will be no new versions of Skype for Linux.

[quote=thewoland]I have a suspicion that nowthat evay bought Skype, there will be no new versions of Skype for Linux.[/quote]

Hm, it is very possible that you are right.

since (I heard) there are more linux users than Mac, that presumably means no more Mac versions either: Does that seem likely?

Furthermore since OSX is Unix inside, I would guess there is a fair amount in common between them - reducing costs to develop

It is not a matter of cost ...
Most of great software are developing for mac, linux, and windows

this skype linux development has really sthg curious.
Linux and the spread of programs for so many applications is really standign and getting the last one for jsut a simple application that remotes the sound & video.

Just a simple, command line can make it :
and would even be cool to see sthg !!





that s sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo difficult make !!