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Re:Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X by written-beyond on Thursday October 31, 2024 @03:22PM (#42010475)
Hearing about these esoteric Linux distros and their lore is always interesting.

I'm surprised Skype used to be functional, post Microsoft acquisition I remember constantly fiddling with it to run consistently on fairly recent versions of Ubuntu on a 4th gen i5 latitude.

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Re:Smashing the Limits: Installing Windows XP in DOSBox-X by exe34 on Thursday October 31, 2024 @05:24PM (#42011689)
oh it was a pain in the gluteus maximus, this was before alsa worked properly, so it was using oss, and you could only have one application using the sound card. this means a random flash applet at the bottom of a page on Firefox could easily hold it and Skype would just not work.
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