I've tried both. And i have gotten skype to work with a USB headset, but
the couple of months it took me to figure it out, and it wasn't really
worth it. Gizmo has promise, but right now it does not work on amd64. It
might with a bit more effort but i haven't gotten around to it yet.
As a slight bonus though, you can use twinkle as a device to
communitcate though gizmo's proxies. SO you can do everything phone
related, but not IM related activities. They also give you 5 free dial
out minutes to call POTS lines when you sign up, which does work through
twinkle as well. Which i have tested to my cell phone, but have not
called someone and talked to them.
All in all, i'm giving up on skype... 6 months without update is just
obsurd( i said the same thing about mythtv during its 8 months of
silence). And right now, until things change, i don't recommend anyone
uses skype because their linux service is more like lip service.
Anyway, just my opinions, nothing more.
bryce
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been hearing some good things about Gizmo, for one, that it's more
Linux-friendly. Haven't tried it myself yet.
Anybody have anything to say about gizmo?
M
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Ralph Slooten wrote:
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Jason Weisberger wrote:
Apparently Skype has been working furiously on a newer version where
alsa support and the like will be built in, but I'm waiting to see
that one.
Just to give a little inside heads-up ~
Firstly I would not call it "furiously" ... it's more like "when they
have time". Yes it's true that alsa-support is being developed, and the
current "beta-beta" builds (not available to the public) use alsa, but
since they released their first alsa-supporting version until the
present it has _never_ worked on either of my gentoo machines. I do beta
testing for Skype btw. Some users on other distros (like redhat) report
success, but I still have to find a gentoo-user who has. The idea of
alsa is great, but the fact that it's all pre-compiled delivers the
issue of compatibility problems with the different alsa versions.
So don't hold your breath ;-) I think the current public release of
Skype will be around for quite a long time, until either:
a) they get more personal to develop the Linux port
b) they open up certain parts of the application (like it's alsa
integration) for self-compiling (like vmware and it's modules) which
imho would solve some compatibility issues.
They also have to eventually rebuild the whole Skype application too it
seems, as it has many design flaws apparently. I'm not saying security
flaws though, just limitations due to it's design.
That being said though, I still think Skype is great. I use it quite a
bit from time to time with good friends and all the main features work
pretty darn well, even with plain OSS-emulation (/dev/dsp).
Greetings,
Ralph
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