<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><span>My take?</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Use your Android phone or tablet, you'll ensure skype works well, You could use your phone headset</span></div><div></div><div> </div><div>Raul Suarez
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<br>An eclectic collection of random thoughts</div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 2:45 PM, B.S. <bs27975@yahoo.ca> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">On 14-10-29 12:54 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:<br clear="none"> > Thanks for the heads up. I was considering Slackware as a possible<br clear="none"> > future option, but I will stick with KDE, or Xubuntu ...<br clear="none"><br clear="none">lxde (LXDE-Qt / Razor-qt) ? lubuntu? or to come lxqt variants?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">As for:<br
clear="none"><br clear="none">On 14-10-29 12:50 PM, William Park wrote:<br clear="none"> > Has anyone tried Skype from VM (VirtualBox or Qemu)?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Any chance just booting a Kubuntu live CD will get you through the day?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">[Perhaps even a persistent Live CD install? i.e. Perhaps 4GB disk space <br clear="none">instead of entire install, running off HD for speed instead of CD? USB <br clear="none">stick even, so you can come back another day if you have to?]<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yqt8330965002" id="yqtfd42691"><br clear="none">On 14-10-29 12:54 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:<br clear="none">> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 12:50 PM, William Park <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:opengeometry@yahoo.ca" href="mailto:opengeometry@yahoo.ca">opengeometry@yahoo.ca</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">>> Yeah, I found it odd. Also, distro choices are old versions, eg.<br
clear="none">>> Ubuntu 10.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Debian 7.0, Fedora 16, OpenSUSU 12.1<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Yes, but probably will install on 14.04.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">>> And, it requires Qt, which means Kubuntu.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Not necessarily. Just some dependencies for Qt, not the whole of KDE.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">>> I'm running 64-bit Slackware, and it's 64-bit only. So, not only do I<br clear="none">>> need webcam/mic, but also a 32-bit machine. :-(<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Thanks for the heads up. I was considering Slackware as a possible<br clear="none">> future option, but I will stick with KDE, or Xubuntu ...<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> The other option you have is if you own an Android tablet or phone.<br clear="none">> Skype works well on those, and most new phones have a front
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