Running Skype on a 400 Mhz machine? (with Linux)

Question

I have an offer for a free outdated laptop, and wondering if it's possible to run skype on this. It will be running with a very stripped-down Ubuntu Linux operating system, and no other graphical goodies hogging up the processing power.

The specs will be:

400 Mhz Celeron processor

Approx 300 MB RAM

Rest is unknown.

Think this is capable of running skype with video?

Answer 1

I highly doubt it. The latest version of Skype lists the specs as such:

Hardware requirements
1 Ghz processor or faster.
256 MB RAM.
20 MB free disk space on your hard drive.
Microphone and speakers or headset.
Internet connection (broadband is best, GPRS is not supported for voice calls, and results     may vary on a satellite connection). .
Video card driver with Xv support.

You can certainly download and attempt to run it, but I suspect that it's not going to work.

Answer 2

try downloading the latest beta version of skype from http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/get-skype/on-your-computer/linux/