On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:00:43 +1000 "Kevin Morgan" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Another thing that won't work properly is Skype.....why? why me? First of all, I should say that Skype is a proprietary system, using its own protocols to connect. In Linux, such proprietary systems are deprecated. You'll be much better off using an open-source protocol such as SIP to connect, and there is a client for this: ekiga. Ekiga is in your repositories and fully mature SIP VoIP client; twinkle is another (and you may find more by Googling). Neither of them will carry Skype, which does not use the SIP protocol. This is the problem with proprietary formats: if you cannot connect to the proprietary package(s), you cannot use the software you have, whereas if open formats are used and clients are written for open formats, you always have a choice. Now back to your original moan :-) Please give us some more information about what happens when you try to connect with Skype, and we will try to help you. Its not just you, its the expectation that Linux will behave exactly like Windows, and it does not. -- Graham Todd --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
