On Tue, 11.08.09 05:25, Patrick Shirkey (pshirkey at boosthardware.com) wrote: >> That Skype is a mess is not really anything free software folks can do >> anything about. It's closed source. The Linux version is barely >> maintained and does about everything wrong that it can do wrong. I >> know that some folks believe that Skype's incompat with PA is my >> problem. But quite frankly, it is not. It's Skype's problem. > > It's not actually. It's the users problem because when they use skype > they can't use pulseaudio. Unless of course they have a second sound > device such as a usb phone. I personally do have one and maybe it should > be recommended as the correct way to use skype on a Linux Audio > system. Hmm, not sure why having a second audio device should solve any problems Skype has with PA. Everything Skype can do with the second audio device it should be able to do with the first. >> Also, Realplayer? Why would anyone want to use that? > > I understand where your coming from but I think it's a crossover issue > more than anything. People want to use what tehy are comfortable with > and if there is a choice between realplayer and mplayer a lot of people > will choose realplayer. We ship Totem in Fedora, installed by default. I am pretty sure most other distributions do that too. People really should use Totem. We ship neither realplayer nor mplayer. > Skype has is the most secure voip system in the world. In fact it is so > secure that even the CIA has put a couple billion dollars bounty on a > reliable method to tap it. It's still the most popular voip solution in > the world and there is only one way we can use it on Linux. Oha! Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
