What is the recommended LinuxEmulator and kernel that will run skype-devel and maybe Flash9

[Beech Rintoul]

On Sunday 16 March 2008, Alexander Leidinger said:
> Quoting Boris Samorodov <bsam at ipt.ru> (Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:24:25 
+0300):
> > On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:50:46 -0500 eculp wrote:
> > > I had already set the kernel to 2.4.20 and though that there
> > > might be an advantage to go to f7 and a 2.6.?? kernel. 
> > > UPDATING doesn't give me that info.  If there is major
> > > advantage, like flash9, the new skype with video, etc. I will
> > > think about it it bit more.
> >
> > Can't say anything about 2.4.20. Only 2.4.2 (the default one) and
> > 2.6.16 (with is intended to become a default in the future) are
> > tested. Use any other values at your risk.
>
> 2.4.20 expects the NPTL in the kernel, but our kernel only
> activates some additional stuff when it's set to 2.6 (note: this is
> limited to a small, but AFAIR important part of the kernel stuff).
> So either use the default, or 2.6.16 to be on the safe side.
> Everything else is something we don't help to debug.

Skype 2.0-oss (video) is a work in progress. I have the beta and it 
will become skype-devel as soon as I get clearance from Skype. 

2.0 requires 2.6.16 as does our current version (1.4.0.118) on amd64.

On another note, skype-1.4.0.118 also requires linux_dri on amd64 as 
will the new version. I see that it's flagged only_for_archs= i386. I 
have verified (so has skype) that it works fine on FreeBSD amd64.
Can we unflag linux_dri so we're not excluding those users?

Thanks,

Beech


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