Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:49:24 -0500 From: eculp <eculp@encontacto.net> To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Skype-1.4 on 6.2 (and 7.0-BETA1) Message-ID: <20071101134924.12223x8i54gap884@intranet.encontacto.net> In-Reply-To: <200711010509.36021.beech@freebsd.org> References: <1193801004.00822110.1193788802@10.7.7.3> <472995EB.3030809@icyb.net.ua> <19582372@srv.sem.ipt.ru> <200711010509.36021.beech@freebsd.org>
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Quoting Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org>: > On Thursday 01 November 2007, Boris Samorodov said: >> On Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:01:31 +0200 Andriy Gapon wrote: >> > Before I start, is it known that fc6 or f7 can work on 6.2 (not >> > even RELENG_6) ? If there are any success stories, then I'll give >> > it a try And if RELENG_6 is better in this respect than 6.2, then >> > I'll wait for 6.3. >> >> The default (supported and maintained) linux.osrelease for all >> platforms is 2.4.2. As for RELENG_7 it _may_ change to 2.6.16 >> before 7.1. There are no plans to do it for 6.x. >> >> Hence I won't advice using 2.6 with anything else but RELENG_7. > > Just to let everyone know, I have reverted skype to 1.2.0.18. I also > pulled skype-devel out of the attic and moved 1.4.0.118 there. This > also appears to work with osrelease=3D2.4.20 > > Beech Hi Beech, Thanks I installed skype-1.4.0.118 this morning by following your very =20 simple and excellent instructions ( because they worked ;)on 7.0-BETA1 =20 FreeBSD7.0-BETA1 #405: Thu Nov 1 07:58:06 CST 2007 with =20 linux_base-f7-7 and compat.linux.osrelease=3D2.6.16. Nice, a totally different user interface. No if I could just get =20 flash working I would be a happy camper. All the other linux =20 emulation that I'm interested in works fine except of course =20 GoogleEarth. Thanks for the port, if not I would never have tried it. ed
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