[bmw]

Any VoIPonauts here? Anyone used Skype? Today Skype announced:

- Skype IN, a service that will allow users to have their own phone number and accept inbound calls from the PSTN.

- an API that will enable third-party developers to build application add-ins to the Skype service.

See: http://voip-blog.tmcnet.com/blog/greg-galitzine/voip/skype-internet-telephony-conference-expo.html


(If you missed it, Skype is a non-standards-compliant voice-over-IP telephony package that runs on Windoze, Linux and now MacOS X. Its reason for success is that unlike SIP and H.323 based stuff, Skype is trivial to configure and use.)

A few weeks ago I fired it up on a Win98SE box (not officially supported by Skype) and my PowerBook to test it out. Despite being behind my *BSD NATing firewall, Skype connected up and I was able to chat between these boxes. Sound quality was excellent--sounded like high quality RA or WMA.

I suspect that Skype is going to blow past SIP VoIP and become the "people's choice".

Has any Screamer here tried running Skype under Linux emulation? That'd be interesting ...

[chapeaurouge]

Hi

I am using Skype as well as SkypeOut. I have had excellent results with it, and it's lovely to call me family in Europe in conference from the USA, for 0.017EUR/min :)

SkypeIn is just making my smile... adios phone...

Thanks for the news!

chap
http://madpenguin.org

[chapeaurouge]

Forgot to mention.. I am running it Linux, perfectly (beta 0.92, kernel 2.8.1, ubuntu). It worked on Slackware as well. I have a friend that ran it on Gentoo and freeBSD.

[Kernel_Killer]

I stick to SJPhone and LinPhone. Can find a port of SJPhone for just about anything.