Skype 2.1 Beta 2 for Linux

Posted on 25 January 2010 by pablog

As Skype surprised the open source community two months ago, recognizing that they were working in a linux open source version of their client, today I found that on 20th January they released a new version with a lot of bugfixes and new features like desktop sharing, support for UI styles (it includes integration with GTK+!!) and also several PulseAudio bugfixes (I bet I am not the only one who remembers that damn old bug that kept the CPU at 100%)…

Their plans are to release an open source UI to use with a closed source Skype library. I have no complains, open source community win!

It even makes sense to start thinking about skype integrated in empathy through telepathy-skype 🙂
There was already a project to do more or less the same with pidgin, but you had to have skype running, which is not so beautiful: skype4pidgin.

http://share.skype.com/sites/linux/2010/01/flowers_become_screens.html

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2 Responses to Skype 2.1 Beta 2 for Linux

  1. Eugenio says:
    26 January 2010 at 21:12

    But the GUI remains unchanged… Very ugly compared to Windows version

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  2. pablog says:
    27 January 2010 at 02:49

    Right, but as far as they release the open source version we will be able to create the most beautiful skype UI ever! 😀

    What is not very clear and I don’t understand is why don’t they have released it yet?

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