It seems every time Skype does an update, something craps out on Fedora. A friend has a F16 laptop running skype with video. About every 3 months some skype update breaks the ability to have video chats. About a week or two later a Fedora update fixes things.<br>
<br>Given that mickysoft now p0wns Skype, It is time to migrate my friend of skype (and his wife who runs a mac, and probably his Mom and Dad on winders).<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Drifter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drifter@oppositelock.org">drifter@oppositelock.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Has anybody been able to keep Skype working on Fedora? Best I can figure<br>
out the problem is an incompatable video driver. I really would like to<br>
get Skype working again on this box if possible.<br>
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On Thursday, April 19, 2012 08:17:14 am Michael Campbell wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 1:18 PM, JD <<a href="mailto:jdp@algoloma.com">jdp@algoloma.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > I have a friend using a Oomla <a href="http://www.ooma.com/products" target="_blank">http://www.ooma.com/products</a> . Saw a<br>
> > sale last<br>
> > week for $140 on that - lifetime calling, but I think they must<br>
> > charge monthly<br>
> > for E911 by law. This same friend tried the MagicJack on a PC for no<br>
> > other use<br>
> > and said it worked well enough, but he always felt slimy.<br>
><br>
> A colleague of mine uses Ooma and raves about it.<br>
><br>
> I use Skype dial-out (I can dial regular #'s with it), and it works<br>
> well enough for me. I'm on business in Belgium right now, and I use<br>
> it to call my home phone in Atlanta on the anemic hotel wifi, and it<br>
> works very well with voice. It also works moderately well with video<br>
> on a Skype-Skype call to home also.<br>
><br>
> I don't have a Jihad against Microsoft, so I'll continue to use Skype<br>
> until a better valued option comes up, or it starts to suck. So far<br>
> neither have happened.<br>
><br>
> I haven't tried Google Voice from my computer to regular # yet, but I<br>
> might try that in the next couple days.<br>
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