Skype 1.0 For Windows Released, Updated Linux Beta

egjertse writes "Today Skype launches its free Skype for Windows Version 1.0 software, which includes SkypeOut, enabling Skype users to pre-pay and call any phone number in the world at highly competitive local rates. Also included in Skype 1.0 is a new file transfer feature and other software enhancements. New beta versions of Skype for Linux (Previous Slashdot Story) and Skype for Pocket PC with the SkypeOut feature are also available. Here are the release notes."

Comments

Re:We need an Open Source Skype

[hey]

That would be nice but what about the POTS interconnect?

Re:No OS X version?

[HeghmoH]

This meme must die!!!!

Aside from the standard POSIX calls, which don't include lots of things that a modern program that goes beyond the command line must do, Mac OS X and Linux are as different as can be. Although Mac OS X has an optional X11 server that can be used to porn X11 programs over, there is one other critical area where they are completely different: sound! Linux sound IO and Mac sound IO are completely different.

Not to mention that when somebody says "Linux", they usually mean "Linux on x86", so you have completely different processor architectures to deal with too.

Yes, Linux and Mac OS X share various underpinnings, but that does not make a port of a program between them, in either direction, to be necessarily easy.