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There is a cheap internet phone service SIP (www.sipphone.com) which is 
$3/month for unlimited incoming calls, 2 cents/min outgoing calls within 
the US (1.7 cents to China, other rates to other places), and you call 
from your computer via broadband or dialup.

For Windows, Mac or Linux.

They have RPM, DEB, Freespire/Linspire and tarball linux packages that 
require:

GTK+ 2.6 or later (Slackware 11 does not even have this)
libstdc++ 5 or 6 (Slackware 11 has 6)
Gconf - what library would this be?

How difficult or impossible would it be to upgrade BL2 or BL3 to work with 
this service?  I can stick Freespire on another partition but I prefer BL.
I could put a minimal BL on another partition and upgrade any libraries 
there, rather than messing up my basic installation.

You can download the 10MB GUI software, or buy an $80 phone to plug into 
your router instead, I am told.

Broadband without landline is now $20/month and landline $30/month, 
making broadband with SIP cheaper than dialup and phone line.

Sindi Keesan