{"id":1232,"date":"2015-06-15T22:05:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T21:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2015-12-30T11:02:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T10:02:04","slug":"skype-in-docker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/2015\/06\/skype-in-docker\/","title":{"rendered":"Skype in Docker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1283\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/small_h-300x104.png\" alt=\"small_h\" width=\"300\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/small_h-300x104.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/small_h.png 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Although jabber is my preferred IM protocol, sometimes I have to communicate with people who, for some reason, only use Skype. On Debian, that can be quite a problem, supposing you are not particularly keen on weed infestation of your system. One way to get Skype was to start a virtual machine with another operating system. That is a rather resource hungry solution for one application only, however. Last week I found a satisfactory solution &#8211; run Skype in a docker container. It was a double win as I finally discovered something to use docker for \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The container keeps Skype away from my base operating system and at the same time it all takes less resources than a full VM. The fork of the original repo is here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/vex21\/docker-skype\">https:\/\/github.com\/vex21\/docker-skype<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Funny things happen, though. Today, Microsoft announced they were <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.skype.com\/2015\/06\/15\/skype-for-web-beta-is-now-available-to-everyone-in-the-us-and-uk\/\">going public with the web interface<\/a>. Naturally, that is the best option they could provide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although jabber is my preferred IM protocol, sometimes I have to communicate with people who, for some reason, only use Skype. On Debian, that can be quite a problem, supposing you are not particularly keen on weed infestation of your &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/2015\/06\/skype-in-docker\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Skype in Docker<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[10,13],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-operatingsystems","tag-debian","tag-os"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1285,"href":"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/1285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hutsky.cz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}