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View Poll Results: Messaging App of the Year
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Pidgin
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353 |
53.40% |
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Kopete
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89 |
13.46% |
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Skype
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63 |
9.53% |
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Gizmo
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2 |
0.30% |
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Ekiga
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2 |
0.30% |
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Psi
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2 |
0.30% |
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XChat
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26 |
3.93% |
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konversation
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12 |
1.82% |
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aMSN
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27 |
4.08% |
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Irssi
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33 |
4.99% |
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BitchX
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5 |
0.76% |
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SIM
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2 |
0.30% |
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Centericq
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5 |
0.76% |
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ejabberd
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2 |
0.30% |
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Zimbra
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5 |
0.76% |
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Gajim
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8 |
1.21% |
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Kadu
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21 |
3.18% |
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Finch
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4 |
0.61% |
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01-31-2009, 04:09 PM
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#31
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Member
Registered: Sep 2005
Location: Sri Lanka
Distribution: Fedora (workstations), CentOS (servers), Arch, Mint, Ubuntu, and a few more.
Posts: 441
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Should've made the category an Open Source one and left out Skype, like in Games category. IMHO
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02-03-2009, 08:29 AM
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#32
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Member
Registered: Oct 2007
Location: California,USA
Distribution: Archlinux
Posts: 194
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empathy not in the list 
but then use kopete tooo |
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02-03-2009, 01:29 PM
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#33
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2008
Location: Oregon
Distribution: debian, CEntOS, parted magic
Posts: 3
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maybe a good add to the list?
I use spark. It is not the most lightweight client but it does a good job.
btw... if you are looking for an opensource IM server to implement openfire has served me pretty well. |
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02-03-2009, 01:53 PM
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#34
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Member
Registered: Nov 2008
Distribution: openSUSE 11.1
Posts: 36
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For a KDE freak and an IRC junkie, what other then konversation?
Isn't kmess a now defunct kde frontend for the MESS video game emmulator?
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02-03-2009, 02:04 PM
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#35
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2008
Posts: 3
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IM & IRC apps are mixed here?
If you are listing IRC and IM clients here, then why not also add Twitter clients? It would be better to have multiple categories here; one for IRC client and one for IM client. I know that some of the IM clients also have IRC capabilities, but this poll doesn't really give users the opportunity to specify which tool they use for various types of communication. My IM client is not the same as my IRC client. Personally, I use Pidgin for IM and IRSSI for IRC. Thanks!
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02-03-2009, 03:32 PM
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#36
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2008
Location: Poland
Distribution: Xtreme2
Posts: 4
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Kadu & Skype  |
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02-03-2009, 06:48 PM
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#37
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2009
Location: vijayawada, India
Distribution: openSUSE 11.2, Ubuntu 9.0.4
Posts: 1,155
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pidgin is very nice one, we can log with any account like AIM, gmail,ICQ,IRC,MSN,skype,yahoo etc etc.
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02-03-2009, 07:20 PM
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#38
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2009
Posts: 3
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I was going to vote for Ayttm? Its not here but it is included as the default messaging app in a top 10 distro (Puppy)
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02-03-2009, 08:30 PM
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#39
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2008
Distribution: Debian, Gentoo, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Slackware, CentOS
Posts: 27
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Pidgin and finch for IM. I use weechat for IRC, since BitchX doesn't appear to be actively developed.
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02-04-2009, 12:17 AM
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#40
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2008
Distribution: openSUSE, Gentoo
Posts: 10
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I'd vote Kopete if there were no problems with proxy
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02-04-2009, 01:07 AM
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#41
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2008
Posts: 25
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pidgin for sure
why ?? because it does a little bit of everything , does not especialize in anything particularly for example its not as good as XChat for irc.. but it does do IRC
Now, If you are one one of those people that wants every thing todo with messaging in one single software.., then pidgin is the one that gets the closest..
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02-05-2009, 03:45 AM
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#42
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Member
Registered: Jan 2009
Location: on my pc!
Distribution: openSUSE 11.2 opensolaris 2009.06
Posts: 218
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amsn its better than kopete kde3 which is unusable and pidgin doesnt fully work and can i suggest adding kmess
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02-10-2009, 04:49 AM
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#43
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2009
Location: Rybnik, Poland
Distribution: Linux Mint 6
Posts: 6
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what about miranda?
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02-10-2009, 10:38 AM
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#44
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Member
Registered: Feb 2007
Location: Bangladesh
Distribution: Fedora Core 9
Posts: 59
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Pidgin is my choice.
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02-10-2009, 03:04 PM
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#45
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Member
Registered: Aug 2006
Posts: 601
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kmess is missing
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