Siju George wrote:
On Dec 2, 2007 1:39 PM, Predrag Punosevac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear All,
I was wondering if I could get some feed back about running Skype on the
OpenBSD 4.2. (i386 with the generic kernel)
I read wonderful article about installation of Skype on OpenBSD
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.bsd.india/352
dangs! that was written by me.
Though I missed your post :-(
and I have couple of questions.
I checked the packages (I use packages only on my older rigs) and I see
that
fedora_base is still for Fedora Core 4.0.
When I checked the Skype website I see that the current version 1.4 is
for Fedora Core 6.0 There is also Skype Static OSS. I am not sure Skype
Static OSS might be even for Solaris despite the fact that is listed
under Linux.
My assumption is that Fedora Core 6.0 uses ALSA and even worse
possibly Linux 2.6 kernel and that probably can not run on OpenBSD.
Which one of the two packages should I choose? Should I may be try to
find Skype 1.2.
Can anyone share hers/his experience in running Skype on OpenBSD.
I installed Skype-1.4.0.99 as you can see from the post you mentioned.
It was for conferencing in my office with others abroad.
Just today I completed Configuring OpenBSD, Asterisk ( IAX2) and
Sutart's great port "app_conference"
for conferencing. So there is less interest in Skype.
But if it is for personal use ( and not company purposes like mine )
Skype is good.
I never got sound right but there are others who can give you a more
detailed reply :-)
We had a lengthy discussion about Skype as you can check. I was more
interested in technical possibility in using Skype and curious
about VoIP options for OpenBSD. I stumbled on your article and I decided
to ask. What I got was more information than what I was barging for. In
the nut shell, I believe that running Skype on OpenBSD box is in
complete contrast with my reasons to switch to OpenBSD
from FreeBSD on the first place. There might be some serious technical
issues with the sound support on OpenBSD for Skype at this point too.
I do need to use VoIP however and my decision is to try to use PJSIP
which is going to be included in 4.3. As Asterisk is already in the
packages I might try to play with that but it seems as a overkill for a
personal use. However if I can handle Asterisk, I might be able to get
much more out of my computers when it comes to telephony.
Can you point me to some initial good reading about Asterisk that will
give me good idea about application and get me going.
Best,
Predrag
Thank you so much
Kind Regards
Siju
