Anyone Use Skype?

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Carlosinfl · #1 Post by **Carlosinfl** » 2006-11-07 23:00

I am traveling to Europe for 2 weeks and was told that I can use Skype for free until the end of the year to make calls via broadband connection and my laptop. I told my friend this sounds like a total scam but he swears it is legit. I have heard of Skype but was not aware it was free.

I see they even have a .deb package which is pretty bad ass!

Anyone care to comment if this have used this before or if I should stay away?

Grifter · #2 Post by **Grifter** » 2006-11-07 23:42

I have used skype for a while now, it's full of bugs (: but the devs are continually working on it which is nice

at least it has alsa now anyway

it's proprietary and closed source, but despite all (including bugs) it's pretty nice, and it does the job

EDIT: Forgot to give you the url, http://forum.skype.com/index.php?s=df88 ... owforum=18

http://share.skype.com/sites/linux/

aketus · #3 Post by **aketus** » 2006-11-08 04:10

Got it going on Debian the other day, been using it for a while now, but I've only used it for instant messaging. I hear that it's good for encrypted communication

http://aptgetanarchy.org/node/72

Carlosinfl · #4 Post by **Carlosinfl** » 2006-11-08 13:49

I installed their latest .deb package and made a call to my cell which worked fine. I did not have mic on my PC so the conversation was one sided but seemed to work fine.

My question is how do you upgrade when they release a new version? Do you remove the old version with the dpkg command and then install the new one or can you roll the new over the old?

Grifter · #5 Post by **Grifter** » 2006-11-08 14:33

you can do both, whenever you apt-get upgrade a program in the respositories that's what happens, so yeah dpkg -i foo.newversion.deb; you can also do the same by downgrading it to a lower version, which is sometimes necessary when it comes to skype (:

Carlosinfl · #6 Post by **Carlosinfl** » 2006-11-08 14:35

Skype was actually the easiest think I had even installed on Debian. Now I just need a MIC.

Grifter · #7 Post by **Grifter** » 2006-11-08 14:56

finding a good mic is actually quite tricky, you'll want a headset, but one which isolates the noise from the headphones so people don't echo back to themselves thru your mic, don't buy the cheapest you can find; it's cheap for a reason

Carlosinfl · #8 Post by **Carlosinfl** » 2006-11-08 14:58

Yes - I am a firm believer in you get what you pay for.