Originally posted by jrch2k8
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Skype 4.0 For Linux Officially Released
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Not a Wine Wrapper
Somebody said that this is just a wine wrapper around the Windows Skype client but that is not true at all. As was posted above, the binary is a native 32-bit ELF executable. An ldd call shows:
ldd ./skype
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb76e1000)
libasound.so.2 => not found
libXv.so.1 => not found
libXss.so.1 => not found
librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0xb76ca000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb76c4000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb758e000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb757c000)
libQtDBus.so.4 => not found
libQtXml.so.4 => not found
libQtGui.so.4 => not found
libQtNetwork.so.4 => not found
libQtCore.so.4 => not found
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7560000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7477000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb744a000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb742d000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb728c000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb76e2000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0xb726e000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb726b000)
libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb7265000)
As you can see, not only is this not a Wine wrapper, the Skype client is actually linking to the Qt libraries so there definitely is some Linux-specific code going on for at least the UI.
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Originally posted by d2kx View PostYeah I can't find wine references. Not sure where he got that from.
dunno maybe i got some hanging wine process from other stuff and relate it too the skype
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Originally posted by scottishduck View PostPeople still use wine?
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Originally posted by Temar View PostThanks for the heads up, I'll stick with the old version.
I prefer an ad-free native binary over a half-assed emulated one, which is probably full of ads. Somehow I already expected MS only being able to write Windows software.
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Download Mumble for free. Low-latency, high quality voice chat for gamers. Mumble is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat software primarily intended for use while gaming. It includes game linking, so voice from other players comes from the direction of their characters, and has echo cancellation so the sound from your loudspeakers won't be audible to other players.
This would be why there's no significant work on a replacement for Skype or reverse engineering Skype.
Replacements already exist.
There is no REASON to work on yet another replacement or to reverse engineer Skype. Better software is already available. Right now. Much of it already under Open Source Licenses.
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