Skype-1.4 on 6.2 (and 7.0-BETA1)

[Andriy Gapon]

on 31/10/2007 21:45 Beech Rintoul said the following:
> 
> Skype positively will not work on FreeBSD 64 bit. The forums are full 
> of people screaming for a 64 bit linux version and the only success 
> has been on ubuntu using their 32 bit compatibility layer. Even with 
> that the results were less than optimal. I'm sure sooner later they 
> will release one, but getting them to release a 64 bit oss version is 
> uncertain. If someone is successful at getting Skype to work on amd64 
> I definitely would like to know. Ubuntu has a /usr/lib32 dir for this 
> kind of problem. Maybe someone with some time and libmap.conf foo can 
> look into it.

Beech,

I think there is some confusion here: our linuxolator always emulates
i386 (32-bit) Linux. So, it should be irrelevant if skype works or not
on amd64 Linux. I am talking about FreeBSD amd64 underlying platform,
not about 64-bit skype or 64-bit Linux. Insulated by our linux emulation
layer skype should not see anything 64-bit.

-- 
Andriy Gapon