Skype releases its Skype 1.4 Linux version
By Ruben Francia
After five months of beta testing, Internet phone and chat application company, Skype, has released Skype for Linux version 1.4.
The release needs to meet minimum hardware and software requirements to run successfully.
The minimum hardware requirements include 400 Mhz processor or faster, 256 MB RAM, 20 MB hard drive free disk space, and microphone and speaker or headset. Broadband Internet connection is recommended. GPRS is not supported for voice calls.
The minimum software requirements include Qt 4.2.1+, DBus 1.0.0, libsigc++ 2.0.2, and libasound2 1.0.12. Typically, these files are available in any reasonably current Linux distribution.
New features include call forwarding, which will forward your Skype calls to a phone or mobile, and birthday reminders, where subscribers automatically receive an alert when it’s a contact’s birthday.
Other features include group chat with up to 100 people or conference call with up to nine others.
While the release offers a host of features and improvements, including “superior voice call quality,” it still lacks SMS and video support that exist in other platforms. But other than these missing features, Skype for Linux 1.4 does seem to be better than the previous Skype for Linux offering.
The package can now be downloaded from their Web site and is available for eight major Linux distributions, which include the generic Linux version, Debian Etch, Fedora Core versions 6 and 7, Mandriva, Mepis, OpenSUSE 10+, Ubuntu Feisty Fawn version 7.04 and Xandros.
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