From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 24 21:20:34 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 212F0D73 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:20:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [74.208.4.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E0526BD9 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:20:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blazon-pc.rw.local ([78.84.244.14]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmxus002) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0Lkx5H-1X2dRP1R0X-00apt7 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:20:26 +0100 Message-ID: <5330A197.2000208@mail.com> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 23:20:23 +0200 From: Jeff Tipton User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121030 Thunderbird/16.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: skype on freebsd References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:BV/K67gUyIQvfX7mjoKdk976pi80FgnEfCMH+doaotdh1k4rs/7 CZfeC1VnxDat9AbFl2rW8X5a3iE6NZ6v01vlCriR8Uhzx8JRd9uuV0Dnn/q5LCqA0zVEzuq 2vedXgxFlId2Gme9JwRUByJUtW087JIepF0kT8+gYto38zsW1KbfloM7k9maRSpdy0NQR2g JQaP0B6i2QJpwETUqnkCA== X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:20:34 -0000 On 03/24/2014 22:22, soko.tica wrote: > Hello list, > > If someone could just send me if it is possible to run skype on a freebsd > box (desktop use). I'm considering which os to install on a pretty old P4 > (1,7 Ghz, 750 MB RAM). > > Many thanks in advance. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Hello, seko.tica, I sometimes use skype on a P4/2.4 GHz/1GB box and Samsung N220 netbook, even with the web cam. There's version 2.1.0.81_1,1 of skype in the ports, not very resource-hungry. But for that you need to set up Linux compatibility layer (see the Handbook for instructions); there's no native FreeBSD version of skype. -Jeff