From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 24 21:39:23 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2F2C51A5 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:39:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E610CD5F for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:39:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-67-138.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.67.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D65F33CF9C; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:39:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id s2OLcmah002148; Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:38:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 22:38:48 +0100 From: Polytropon To: soko.tica@gmail.com Subject: Re: skype on freebsd Message-Id: <20140324223848.ceff3d9a.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:39:23 -0000 On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:22:26 +0100, soko.tica wrote: > 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). I have been using "Skype" on a P4, 2.0 GHz, 512 MB RAM, using FreeBSD 5 and 7. It should be possible to do this on recent FreeBSD versions... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...