Best FOSS alternative for skype?

[Richard Shaw]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Fernando Cassia <fcassia at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:48, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> No review requests but I think I know why, it appears to be dependent
>> on Sun Java, I'm not sure if it will work with Iced Tea... This could
>> get interesting.
>
> OpenJDK is, for all intents and purpoes, Sun JRE.
> In fact, the differences should be minimum. And when JDK7 is released
> in a few weeks, the final code will be contributed back to OpenJDK (in
> fact, one can get an OpenJDK v7 now, although the code is not
> finished).
>
> So... the only difference will be if you get the freeware binary from
> Java.com, or the OpenJDK release from your favourite package
> manager...
>
> AFAIK "IcedTea" only includes a free implementation of the browser
> plug-in glue, and Java Web Start, which were not included as part of
> OpenJDK.

Yeah, for some reason I was confusing/substituting openJDK with
IcedTea. I guess because in previous Fedora versions I recall having
to install sun Java for web applets because IcedTea/openJDK didn't
work for everything (Juniper VPN for one).

Like I mentioned I have it compiled now but their rpm includes many
files that are not in their source (binaries, man pages, etc) and the
rpmlint isn't clean on their provided RPM so I'll see what I can do.

Richard