Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:54:01 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: Beech Rintoul <beech@freebsd.org> Cc: Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de>, multimedia-list freebsd <freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Skype-1.4 on 6.2 (and 7.0-BETA1) Message-ID: <47299429.4030303@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <200710311145.22970.beech@freebsd.org> References: <1193801004.00822110.1193788802@10.7.7.3> <1193844187.00822511.1193831403@10.7.7.3> <4728AB7E.3000206@icyb.net.ua> <200710311145.22970.beech@freebsd.org>
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on 31/10/2007 21:45 Beech Rintoul said the following: > > Skype positively will not work on FreeBSD 64 bit. The forums are full > of people screaming for a 64 bit linux version and the only success > has been on ubuntu using their 32 bit compatibility layer. Even with > that the results were less than optimal. I'm sure sooner later they > will release one, but getting them to release a 64 bit oss version is > uncertain. If someone is successful at getting Skype to work on amd64 > I definitely would like to know. Ubuntu has a /usr/lib32 dir for this > kind of problem. Maybe someone with some time and libmap.conf foo can > look into it. Beech, I think there is some confusion here: our linuxolator always emulates i386 (32-bit) Linux. So, it should be irrelevant if skype works or not on amd64 Linux. I am talking about FreeBSD amd64 underlying platform, not about 64-bit skype or 64-bit Linux. Insulated by our linux emulation layer skype should not see anything 64-bit. -- Andriy Gapon
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