Skype is a popular text, video and voice (VoIP) chat client.  A more detailed article can be found on the Wikipedia Skype page.  Here is a list of some of the hurdles I’ve ran into getting the client to work on my own distribution.
PROBLEM
Skype for Linux had poor video in the not so distant [...]

Fedora 12 has been out of the oven since about Nov 17 so it’s high time I upgrade before it spoils.  As with the previous release, I look forward to any new features in KDE 4.3.  (As you recall from the previous upgrades, KDE was introduced rewritten almost entirely in Qt4).  Also noteworthy to mention is [...]

INTRO
Printing, can become one of those nagging things if you don’t have it going yet.  This is especially true on Linux.  Though it’s 2009 at this time, Linux is still lagging in printer support though that margin between Linux and Windows is shrinking rapidly. 
Having been already logged into my Linux partition I thought [...]

Having a dual boot system, I find that when setting one OS time correctly will corrupt the other OS’s time. This has been going on for a while on my system despite numerous attempts to set the time properly. I suspect this has to do with BIOS settings but couldn’t pin point the correct [...]