alsa-oss

[Fibonacci Prower]

2006/9/27, Oisin Feeley <oisin.feeley at gmail.com>:
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>
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> On 9/27/06, Fibonacci Prower <fibonacci.prower at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 2006/9/27, Rudi Chiarito <nutello at sweetness.com>:
> > >
> > > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 12:01:17PM -0500, Fibonacci Prower wrote:
> > > > You not liking Skype is not a reason to remove support for it. It's
> > > the only
> > > > way millions of people have to talk with their loved ones without
> > > the phone
> > > > bill skyrocketing. And yes, that includes me.
> > >
> > > Again: there have been two public Skype betas out for a while, maybe
> > > for two
> > > months now. It already works better than the stable release. And yes,
> > > it does use ALSA.
> >
> >
> > The accent is on "betas".
> >
>
> What have you found non-functional about the betas?
>
> Is there some reason why you can't use Ekiga?
>

I have no problem using Ekiga. It's the other people who do.

It comes in a nice, easy to install RPM (unlike skype which only has RPMs
> for FC3 and FC4 or tarballs).
>

I've never had a problem with binary tarballs (source tarballs are a horse
of a different colour).

Also, as Rahul has pointed out, the aoss stuff is available if you really
> need it.
>

Yes, if you don't mind compiling from source.

But why go through the pain?   Is it because the people you want to talk to
> will only run Skype?
>

It's because most people I want to talk to run Microsoft Windows.

Oisin
>

-Fibo

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