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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/

Skype allows users to make telephone calls over the Internet to other Skype users free of charge and to landlines and cell phones for a fee. Additional features include instant messaging, file transfer, short message service, video conferencing and its ability to circumvent firewalls.

For Linux Skype came with a full voice support and an friendly interface made in Qt.

And now video support has also been added and is comming with the new beta version available at :–

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

Actually i couldnt find a direct like on the Skype site to download this beta version so i thought givibg this link might help many Linux voice chat aspirants.But please beware its a beta version and have many bugs so expect many surprises, though its good that both voice and video chat can be done using a single software ( unlike previously when i had to use skype for voice and amsn for video to chat with the same person).

Kiba dock is a beautiful application dock that uses the Akamaru physics engine to render
complex interactions. Its a MAC style dock that i built for Linux. It works on Linux with graphics effects turned on. Can be used with both KDE and Gnome. Well what more can be said…the with the video below you can see it all for your self…

Installing Kiba Dock :–kiba dock source can be downloaded form its svn server using the command “svn co https://kibadock.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kibadock/trunk kiba” which will copy the files to kiba directory in the directory you execute this command. Then you will have to install it normally by using the commands — make , make install and intall.
If you are using openSuse simply use 1 click install option from the link www.software.opensuse.org/search.