Skype works on Fedora Linux

I just tried the Skype on Fedora core 4 and it works pretty well. So that makes a Linux box virtually everything one needs for a multimedia home PC. Currently Skype is the only popular IM which is supporting voice chat on Linux. There are other packages in Gnome which support even Video Conferencing but I am not sure how popular they are. The benefits are now enormous. Especially if you are having a cyber cafe and have 300 odd computers. There could be substantial saving if Linux is deployed. You pay nothing for the software cost and perhaps most of the people won't have any difficulty in browsing the net. The new open office 2 looks much slicker and comes bundled with Fedora core 4. The other softwares like Xine can be installed though a little issue of copyright could be a problem. The default Helix player is ok for other media types. I tried to install the mplayer through the fresh rpm web site. But there were too many dependencies to worry about. But overall Linux is increasingly becoming competitive to the hegemonic Windows. However one place where Windows is very flexible is adding and removing programs and its this one single reason that makes Windows so popular. You can be 99 percent sure that any new software for Windows you are installing will probably work without a hitch. So that means that I will be keeping my laptop running on Windows for some more time.