Good news for all voice+video chat lovers… Skype 2.0 is finally out as a stable version.

  • Hardware requirements
  • 1 Ghz processor or faster
  • 256 MB RAM.
  • 20 MB free disk space on your hard drive.
  • Microphone and speakers or headset.
  • Internet connection (broadband is best, GPRS is not supported for voice calls, and results may vary on a satellite connection). .
  • Video card driver with Xv support.
  • Software requirements
  • Qt 4.2.1+
  • D-Bus 1.0.0
  • libasound2 1.0.12

Skype 2.0 supports both video and voice chat support. all you need is a webcam and its drivers installed. The other requirements are listed above.

http://www.skype.com/intl/en/download/skype/linux/choose/