was: Anyone using Skype on FC11 ? Now SkypeGripe

By Roger at 08/30/2009 - 20:13

Regardless, its what people use and Open Source doesn't communicate with
it without pain.
Ekiga won't let me talk to the people I need to talk to.
I need alternatives and haven't got the time to search for them.

Skype charges 31 cents to dial and talk on a land line phone for as long
as you like.
AOL which somehow arrived thru Ekiga/Aim charges 17 cents per minute, -
Greed exemplified.

There is an app that supposedly lets Ekiga talk to skype but the cost
for domestic -to phone- calls is not on their page.
I use only Open Source but for the next 3 years I need to talk to
certain people so closed source becomes my grudging alternative.

<Rant - Gripe>
I am annoyed with skype and I haven't used it yet.
Why?
---Because it doesn't find 5 people with skype names in it's database
who have used it for the last 5+ years.
These have long time skype addresses but which cannot be entered in to
my contact list. This is crap.
---Because, while sound works I can't hear or talk to callers. This
apparently because skype doesn't talk through alsa only through OSS --
yes I have alsa-oss installed according to Yum
---Because skype help is not helpful.
</Rant - Gripe>

Open source please.
Has anyone got skype working on Fedora 11?
I thought I did but was wrong.
Roger