On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:15 AM, <fors...@ozonline.com.au> wrote: > Installing Skype on the XO-1.75 using the instructions at > wiki.laptop.org/go/Skype does not work.
As others have pointed out, Skype (the company) does not publish a "skype-for-linux, ARM version". AIUI, they will never do so, and probably they'll stop caring about the current skype-for-linux x86/x86_64 real soon. They do publish a devkit that has libraries for various platforms, and I've been told it has an ARM binary library. The documentation is interesting -- clearly they have a library to make it easy to build your own UI to skype; and they have Python bindings (and examples!). So if some enterprising soul wanted to sign up for their dev program (there's a small fee, I believe) you can look at what's inside, perhaps even try to run the python samples on our hw. A Python client means a Sugar-ish client is possible, if you want to look at the upside. (The downsides are well documented :-) ). Here I am glossing over some complications -- ARM is a bit more fragmented that x86, so a unified ARM version is possible, but would likely suck badly on all platforms. You'd want ARMv5tel for our current build, which would perhaps be so-so, and then ARMv7hl for the OS we'll prepare next year. Similar concerns affect Flash-for-Linux on ARM and any performance-sensitive binary plugins you can think of. One good piece of news is that Skype isn't the only game in town. Google-talk-plugin has been my friend lately, and competes with Skype plenty in my personal usage (it's the plugin behind gmail/gchat voice + video, g+ hangouts, and google's own int'l dialling service). hth, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel