[wellylug] VOIP calling band-width usage

[Steve Baker]

On 18/08/07, Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 19:57 +1200, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> > How do people find Skype? I've heard of it hosing Linux systems. There
> > doesn't seem to be a package in Ubuntu, not that that is a big problem.
>
> Skype's a piece of buggy, unstable crap.
>
> I've had it regularly crash, lock up the whole system for a minute and
> found various bugs with it's features.

To be fair the current Skype linux beta is a complete rewrite which
seems to have addressed the problems that the "stable" version has.
I've had no problem with it aside from the angst of using a closed
source app.