On 08/06/14 01:35, Philip Amadeo Saeli wrote:
I'm currently running the stock openSUSE-13.1 skype set up as described in the SDB:Skype [1] article:
linux$ rpm -q skype skype-4.2.0.11-suse121.i586
What's weird is that it was working just fine earlier yesterday.
That was a server-side change by Microsoft. I have one account that was affected three days ago, another one today. The change seems to be rolled out in waves, not all-at-once, as it is usual nowadays in the age of cloud services. (That's an observation, not a critique. I wholeheartily subscribe to the new view that there must not be one defined overall state of system in the whole network.)
Also, I am running an even older version of Skype on another, handheld, linux-based device (Skype version [10017/1.7.113.22.2], (C) 2003-2007), and it works without any problem (!).
Prepare that it won't run any more, within a few days. Microsoft announced it.
Anyway, I did read thru some of the referenced email thread and have now downloaded Skype-4.3 from the Skype site. If it looks OK, I will install that one and see how it works.
BTW, anyone have a reference to the changes in the new Skype-4.3? Has anyone else tried out the new Skype-4.3 on openSUSE-13.1?
I didn't have any problems (well, besides the existing and ongoing idiosynchrasies that is Skype in itself; e.g., the problem to actually terminate it from an end user level point of view, compared to a "kill".) It even works on an old notebook of mine running openSUSE 11.4, without problems. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod, Roedermark, Germany Email: jschrod@acm.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org