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These are the Requirements specified by Skype on Linux Beta  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). Video card driver with Xv support. Software requirements Qt 4.2.1+ D-Bus 1.0.0 libasound2 1.0.12 PulseAudio 0.9.10+ (optional) PulseAudio 0.9.15+ (optional recommended) Technical details Version 2.1.0.47 Get your Skype for fedora from here Fedora 9   Fedora 10+ For other Linux distros see  http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/choose/

Open a terminal and become root using 'su'. Now type at terminal these commands to make your fedora play multimedia files. # rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm # rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm # yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly xine-lib-extras-nonfree # yum install xine xine-lib libdvdcss Now you will be able to play mp3s and dvds in your fedora 11.

Elpicx is a dual boot live DVD with ubuntu 8.04 and Fedora 9 KDE . It includes a collection of reference cards, test simulators, study notes and exercises for the Linux Professional Institute certification exam. It best for students preparing any certification in Linux. Originally it is a germen distribution but English version also available. Now elpicx 2.0 is available. Download English version (1483MB)