google hangout and/or skype

[Sean Zipperer]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015, at 02:46 AM, Giuseppe Pagnoni wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am running Freebsd 10.2 amd64 on a desktop, and I would need to use
> either Skype or Google Hangout for work. By perusing the web and the
> mail lists, it seems that neither Hangout nor Skype work anymore on
> FreeBSD.  So, I installed Windows 7 in VirtualBox to get around this,
> only to find out that in VirtualBox *USB* doesn't work on FreeBSD
> hosts (and I have a USB webcam, which works in FreeBSD, as tested via
> pwcview).
> 
> Does anybody know of a solution short of dual-booting to Windows? I am
> pretty positive that asking all colleagues to install uTox, ekiga,
> etc. on their various systems is not going to be a successful
> strategy.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any suggestion

I believe you can run it with the linuxulator by adding linux_enable=YES
in /etc/rc.conf and installing net-im/skype4 .   In the case that
doesn't work try wine maybe?  The hosts of the BSDNow podcast have said
they're using Skype and freebsd so it should be possible.

Hangouts should work as last I used it there was a browser plugin for
chrome for it which is available in freebsd.

-- 
Sean Zipperer
bsd at rofltech dot com