Kudos to Joey Hess!

Skype.com does not provide a 64bit package for Fedora Linux, but you can make your own out of their Debian package.

For that you will need Alien program from http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/ which converts among several distribution formats. Just run Alien on the DEB package and rpm -ivh the resulting RPM package and you are all set.

You can try that for other formats too.

UPDATE: Both 32 and 64bit versions of Skype Linux Beta have a bug, which causes the audio card settings page to forget the interface the input is set to.

UPDATE: Both 32 and 64bit versions of Skype Linux Beta have a bug, which causes the audio card settings page to forget the interface the input is set to. After rebooting Linux Skype falls back onto the very first item in the drop down for the Input, which in the eternal wisdom of its developer is... guess what? 'Drop all frames' of all choices.

That results in annoyance that you have to enter Options/Audio every time you restart Skype and pick the microphone interface of your main sound card. Until then you will hear your counterpart, but they won't hear you.

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