Star Linux Skype Client To Go Open Source
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 3rd Nov 2009 19:54 UTC, submitted by poundsmack
Internet & Networking We waited a little while with this news, because we wanted official confirmation from Skype before jumping on the internet bandwagon. It's official now, so here we go: Skype has announced that it will release its Linux client as open source. A little late, but welcome nonetheless.
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darknexus
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2008-07-15

Skype 2.1 has perfect pulseaudio integration, just use a pulseaudio version more recent than 0.9.16 better 0.9.19. I am running this on Ubuntu Lucid (which is virtually still the same as Karmic) with pulseaudio and it works like a charm. I can even use my bluetooth headset. If your pulseaudio version is 0.9.15 or older chances are bad it will work well. For me, Skype never worked without crashes and sound problems until PA 0.9.16.

Adrian


Thanks, I wasn't aware of this. Very good to know, and encouraging at the same time. If one commercial vendor is finally recognizing that Pulseaudio is the future of Linux audio, whether we like it or not, perhaps others will follow and we can have an end to sound issues... until, of course, someone else comes out with a different audio layer that every distro rushes to adopt ;) .

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vivainio Member since:
2008-12-26


Thanks, I wasn't aware of this. Very good to know, and encouraging at the same time. If one commercial vendor is finally recognizing that Pulseaudio is the future of Linux audio, whether we like it or not, perhaps others will follow and we can have an end to sound issues...


Nokia also recognized this. N900 (the new Maemo phone) is using pulseaudio.

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