On Sun, 31 May 2009, Andrew Errington wrote:
On Sun, May 31, 2009 20:37, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
On Sun 31 May 2009 16:16:17 NZST +1200, Andrew Errington wrote:
No. He said that "It is only on linux that Skype gets hard to setup". I
merely pointed out that it was trivially easy on Linux. For me.
Ok, let me clarify.
There are going to be problems in installing software on your computer.
Going on the number of requests for help that are seen, and the what the
requests are, one can predict the likely trouble spots.
On Linux::
For Ekiga, you are likely to get
sound issues and network configuration.
For Skype, you are likely to get sound issues.
See - it is simpler to just install Skype and use it.
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Andrew - you are lucky - sound worked for you first time..
Why is sound such an issue on linux?
Observe the Huge number of sound related posts in the ubuntu user forums.
Because, as Volker so rightly said,
"Sound is a mess under Linux"
Further, there are no specks of dust||wooden beams here.
I detest and loath sound under linux.
There is the potential of hope with Pulse.
I recently wrote a pulse plugin for ptlib that works well.
Multiple applications can simultaneously read/write to the same sound
device, all at different rates&sampling sizes.
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