skype repository for fedora 9

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 02:51 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 2008 13:31:11 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 
> > On Monday 19 May 2008 13:12, Roman Makurin wrote:
> >> Hi All!
> >>
> >> Is there any repo with skype for Fedora 9?
> >>
> > Skype  is proprietary, so can't be in Fedora.  Does it have to be skype?
> > There are other possibilities.  Take a look at ekiga, for instance.
> > 
> > Anne
> 
> Does video work in ekiga? I haven't tried it in F9 but it's been broken 
> since about F7. At the time the developers confirmed the bug and they 
> figured it must be in alsa.
> 
> Here's a summary of IM options that I've tried:
> 
> 1) gaim: speaks a hundred protocols, but no voice, no video, not even file 
> transfers.

Last time I looked, gaim (now called pidgin) does do file trsnfers, at
least with MSN (it's reaaaalllllyyyyy sssslllllooooowwwww but it works).

poc