OK, I click on Skype to login....login, and it opens, not in the usual way though, just with a small window at the side with a list of addresses. When I log on to an address, I can chat with text, but cannot ring out to that address, however, when an address rings me, I can answer the call, but then the call cuts out, not to mention the voice on the other end is a little distorted.
2008/12/21 Graham Todd <[email protected]> > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
