What I would like to learn is how to get a virtual box or something where I can load Windows XP and run the things I cannot use with gOS, but can with Windows. I have not yet become computer savvy with how to do these things....but am willing to learn, after all I am a drummer with both brains working simultaneously or in opposition (which is when you learn the Truth).
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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
