Skype on XO 1.5

[Martin Langhoff]

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> At the behest (more like pestering) of my mother, I installed Skype
> (Fedora 13+ version) on a XO 1.5 with build 874 and it all works. This
> is on the GNOME side. Both audio and video. I'm going to add a +1 in
> my mother's contribution column :-) (She translated NN's open letter
> into Hindi. bit.ly/9aMrGI)

On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> At the behest (more like pestering) of my mother, I installed Skype
> (Fedora 13+ version) on a XO 1.5 with build 874 and it all works. This
> is on the GNOME side. Both audio and video. I'm going to add a +1 in
> my mother's contribution column :-) (She translated NN's open letter
> into Hindi. bit.ly/9aMrGI)

And thanks to Jon Nettleton's impressive work on openchrome for making
that happen!

Keep in mind that it's very sensitive to Skype version. You'll want
the latest one that _doesn't_ use the silk protocol. This is because
silk eats up too much cpu, making everything lag.

It may also be sensitive to network conditions. Dealing with a really
bad connection often throws skype off -- but that's true with any
machine :-/




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