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Skype 2.0 beta for Linux adds video support
Skype 2.0 beta for Linux is available for several popular Linux distributions including Debian, Mepis, Xandros, Mandriva, and OpenSuse. For some reason while there are Ubuntu and Fedora packages available, they're for older versions of those operating systems. There are packages for Ubuntu 7.04 (while 7.10 was released a few weeks ago) and Fedora 7 (even though Fedora 8 is due out tomorrow).
You'll need a video card driver with Xv support, and a PC with a 1GHz processor to run Skype 2.0 beta for Linux.
[via EeeUser]

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julian said 8:36PM on 11-07-2007
sweeeet!
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Taomyn said 8:09AM on 11-08-2007
Yes very sweet. Unlike my old Vista installation, I installed this the other night under Kubuntu 7.10, plugged in my 18 month old Creative notebook webcam (unsupported under Vista) and it all worked without having to make any configuration changes.
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Tush said 12:20PM on 11-08-2007
Great news!
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