On 3/11/19 11:27 pm, Jonathan Drews wrote: > The woman offering the class uses Skype so I am probably going to have to use > Windows. I have a laptop with Windows 10 but I hardly ever use it. Windows is > a big step down in performance when compared to OpenBSD. > I thought Skype used a protocol that allowed other clients to connect to it > then I read the Wikipedia page on Skype. The technology is owned by Microsoft.
Yeah, Skype uses its own proprietary protocol. Not sure if there's ever been an effort to reverse engineer it. Skype was a start-up company originally, which was then bought by eBay, then later sold to Microsoft. There was clients for Linux, MacOS X and Windows years ago, not sure what their status is today. I haven't touched Skype myself since 2012, last time I did was on MacOS X 10.6. I hear there's a WebRTC version. If the browsers available for OpenBSD are capable of this too, that might be your best bet, otherwise you're more-or-less snookered: you'll have to run Skype either in a VM, alternate OS on the same computer (dual-boot), or install it on a separate computer. -- Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL) I haven't lost my mind... ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.
