On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 11:05:57PM +0200, Alexey Suslikov wrote: > Predrag Punosevac wrote: > > > I apologize to everyone for my first message as it seems stirred high > > unintended emotions. I was merely interested in the technical > > possibility to run the Skype on the OpenBSD box. As of this moment > > I do not have even a Linux emulator turned on as I have strong > > preference for BSD license and keeping thing as simple as possible. > > Technically, you need > > - fedora_base installed, > - ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/extras/4/i386/libsigc++20-2.0.17-1.i386.rpm > (needs rpm and gcpio packages to decompress), > - http://download.skype.com/linux/skype_static-1.4.0.118-oss.tar.bz2 > (FreeBSD port switched to this version since Nov). > > Above works for me on -current (Skype is able to start and register) but > sound is not tested.
kernel OSS emulation (linux binaries) is (purposefully) lagging behind userland OSS emulation (native binaries). > Thing I should mention: > > - noone can restrict you in using closed software like Skype (since this is > your decision) but you've been warned about possible consequences. > > Good systrace policy may help to control Skype but I'm not sure this will > work with emulated binaries. Does anybody know? > > - Alexey. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
