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View Poll Results: Messaging App of the Year
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Gaim
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597 |
56.00% |
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Psi
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7 |
0.66% |
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Skype
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69 |
6.47% |
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Kopete
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233 |
21.86% |
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GnomeMeeting
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16 |
1.50% |
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xchat
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44 |
4.13% |
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konversation
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14 |
1.31% |
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aMSN
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72 |
6.75% |
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Irssi
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14 |
1.31% |
12-30-2004, 08:21 PM
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root 
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 9,532
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Messaging App of the Year
A new award this year.
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12-30-2004, 10:18 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2004
Location: Hilliard, Ohio, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Kubuntu
Posts: 1,851
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You forgot aMSN
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12-31-2004, 01:22 AM
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Guru
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: N. E. England
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS, Debian
Posts: 16,298
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how about xchat and konversation?
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12-31-2004, 02:08 AM
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Guru
Registered: May 2003
Location: INDIA
Distribution: Ubuntu, Solaris,CentOS
Posts: 5,522
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hey what about gyach??
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12-31-2004, 02:08 AM
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#5
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Member
Registered: Dec 2004
Distribution: Fedora Core 3
Posts: 66
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12-31-2004, 08:32 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2004
Location: the Netherlands
Distribution: debian SID
Posts: 2,170
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Gaim. Easy, looks good, works good  |
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12-31-2004, 08:46 AM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Valby, Denmark / Citizen of the Web
Distribution: Slackware 14.0
Posts: 855
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Is there a Jabber application as such? I thought it was a protocol.
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12-31-2004, 12:19 PM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Can
Distribution: Slackware, ubuntu
Posts: 391
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aMSN you insensitive clod!
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12-31-2004, 12:36 PM
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#9
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Member
Registered: Apr 2004
Location: queens , nyc
Distribution: Slackware , Ubuntu
Posts: 349
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gaim all the way
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12-31-2004, 01:23 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Syracuse, NY
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 7
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since you included xchat, which is an IRC client, where are the rest?
I suppose you chose to leave IRSSI off the list since it would blow the rest out of the water |
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12-31-2004, 01:26 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: California
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 172
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Well I don't use IM as much as I used to but I will go with Gaim, as it does what I needed it to do.
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12-31-2004, 03:42 PM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Posts: 140
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XChat and Gaim in the same catagory? Oh dear, what to choose, what to choose.
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12-31-2004, 07:01 PM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2004
Distribution: Windows XP Home, Ubuntu Hoary
Posts: 584
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aMSN!!!!
Gaim's support for the MSN protocol is nothing compared to AMSN's. An example:
I added 10 people to my buddy list from my old work after I quit, so after 3 weeks of them not talking to me while I used Gaim, I decided to open my account in AMSN to see what was going on. As soon as AMSN opened, 10 windows popped up with people waiting for my permission to talk to me. The Gaim team needs to work on this a bit more.
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12-31-2004, 08:39 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Raleigh, NC, USA
Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux
Posts: 9
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There is an IRC client in this list, so where are Irssi, ERC (Emacs IRC Client), BitchX?
Also, Bitlbee is awesome... "IRC to other chat networks gateway", lets you use your IRC client for interacting with any chat networks supported by Gaim. (Uses Gaim code for the protocol support, but is an entirely separate program)
Last edited by bpt; 12-31-2004 at 08:44 PM.
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12-31-2004, 08:43 PM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2003
Distribution: Slackware, Suse 9.2
Posts: 565
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Gaim is the one I picked.
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