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Old 9th August 2009
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Originally Posted by Carpetsmoker View Post
http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-oss

Seems to be an ``OSS-version'', but it still required ALSA library.
Also, sound does not work ... I don't care so much about sound as I do for chat though.
So far, the program doesn't run very stable, in 5 minutes the program has crashed twice on me.
I have similar experiences with Opera (Installed from ports), it's not very functional ...
You must be using bsd.mp kernel since you probably have multi core machine. Linux emulation doesn't interact well with bsd.mp kernel. That is well know bug and there is no fix for it. Try running Opera and Skype on bsd kernel.

Opera 9.64 is rock stable on 4.5/i386 stable (release version 9.63 also but it has serious security bug so I back ported 9.64). Opera 10 runs also very stable. You can find unofficial port of Opera 10.xxx on the ports mailing list. Use MARC's server to browse archive since he is not stripping attachments.

Skype 1.4 (which you can get from NetBSD repository) works rock stable.
You will not be able to use the sound though. I was able to get the message working but not full duplex (audio recording). I do not use Skype so I do not care. If you want VoIP with OpenBSD this is how should be done OpenBSD way

http://archive.openbsd.nu/?ml=openbs...-06&m=10838127

Acrobat 7.0 works very stable including on bsd.mp kernel which was a HUGE surprise for me.

In principle Linux emulation is dying code and right now exists so that people can run Opera. FreeBSD emulation is also dead as far as I know. You can not run any 6.0 or latter binaries.

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OKO

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