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View Poll Results: Messaging App of the Year
Gaim
611 51.52%
Kopete
257 21.67%
Skype
71 5.99%
Gizmo
6 0.51%
Ekiga (was GnomeMeeting)
14 1.18%
Psi
27 2.28%
XChat
43 3.63%
konversation
22 1.85%
aMSN
67 5.65%
Irssi
38 3.20%
BitchX
8 0.67%
KMess
4 0.34%
SIM
8 0.67%
Centericq
10 0.84%
#1
root
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 9,110
Messaging App of the Year
Which app do you prefer to keep in touch?
#2
Member
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Rhode Island, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Xubuntu
Posts: 348
Rep:
Gaim... very useful app.
#3
Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: In my house.
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.10 64bit, Slackware 13.1 64-bit
Posts: 2,649
Rep:
Out of the choices, gaim.
#4
Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2004
Location: Roughly 29.467N / 81.206W
Distribution: FreeBSD, NetBSD
Posts: 1,446
Rep:
Gaim but I also use irssi all the time as well (since I don't like gaim's interface for IRC). So I guess I could have gone with either.
#5
Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: India
Distribution: Fedora
Posts: 1,562
Rep:
None but Gaim!
#6
Registered User
Registered: Apr 2004
Posts: 560
Rep:
Gaim is good but so is xbitch and both have been mainstays for years. For app of THIS year though it has to be the all conquering skype.
#7
LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2005
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 27
Rep:
Gaim is for gnome. Sim is for kde.
#8
Member
Registered: Aug 2006
Location: Shen Zhen
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04
Posts: 193
Rep:
Gaim is my favorite,
#9
Member
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: USA
Distribution: Mageia 1
Posts: 907
Rep:
Gaim, but the new versions beginning to suck...
#10
Senior Member
Registered: May 2002
Location: Melbourne Australia
Distribution: it died/ macosx
Posts: 2,478
Rep:
God bless skype. Even my non-geek family members use it.
#11
LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2007
Location: Finland
Distribution: 64bit Gentoo
Posts: 11
Rep:
No need to think twice on this one.. Irssi, the one and only..
#12
Member
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Slovenia
Distribution: Mandriva Linux
Posts: 59
Rep:
Kopete
I use Kopete the most. But for Jabber I also use Psi.
#13
Member
Registered: Jun 2005
Location: University of Maryland
Distribution: FreeBSD
Posts: 268
Rep:
I only use irssi and naim. IMO irssi is the best app on that list.
#14
Member
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: WA
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 230
Rep:
Gaim of course.
#15
Member
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Australia
Distribution: slackware 12.1
Posts: 753
Rep:
Ofcourse Gaim ni. W/ encryption support its damn cool. All in one too. Though I miss the snoooze, I can live w/ it knowing If I can't send it to others, nobody else can send it to me either. hehe.
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