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View Poll Results: Messaging App of the Year
Pidgin
353 53.40%
Kopete
89 13.46%
Skype
63 9.53%
Gizmo
2 0.30%
Ekiga
2 0.30%
Psi
2 0.30%
XChat
26 3.93%
konversation
12 1.82%
aMSN
27 4.08%
Irssi
33 4.99%
BitchX
5 0.76%
SIM
2 0.30%
Centericq
5 0.76%
ejabberd
2 0.30%
Zimbra
5 0.76%
Gajim
8 1.21%
Kadu
21 3.18%
Finch
4 0.61%
#1
root
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 7,139
Thanked: 164
Messaging App of the Year
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Which app do you prefer to keep in touch?
#2
Member
Registered: Sep 2006
Location: Orange County, NY
Distribution: Ubuntu & Solaris
Posts: 232
Thanked: 13
I like to go hardcore terminal style so I would like to throw out a nomination for naim also allows for ssh from work without your boss being the wiser.
#3
Member
Registered: Feb 2008
Location: Aguascalientes, MX
Distribution: Slackware since 3.4 and love it!!!
Posts: 162
Thanked: 1
You could add
emesene too
#4
Member
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: pl_PL.lodz
Distribution: FreeBSD
Posts: 250
Thanked: 3
If Kadu is included then ekg/ekg2 should also be listed.
#5
Member
Registered: Feb 2006
Distribution: Ubuntu 9.04 with ROX DE
Posts: 164
Thanked: 4
Ah. Never mind
Last edited by Mark7; 01-08-2009 at 04:04 AM ..
#6
Member
Registered: Sep 2008
Location: Hell(as)
Distribution: Slackware64
Posts: 380
Thanked: 46
finch, the ncurses pidgin client. all the useful pidgin features wrapped up in the awesome ncurses UI
#7
Member
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Raleigh, NC
Distribution: CentOS 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5
Posts: 610
Thanked: 5
pidgin for home(desktop)
#8
Guru
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: $RANDOM
Distribution: slackware64
Posts: 6,712
Thanked: 213
Kopete or Pidgin.
#9
Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: London
Distribution: Slackware 13 32/64
Posts: 1,654
Thanked: 75
Pidgin or kadu
#10
Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: India
Distribution: Fedora
Posts: 1,565
Thanked: 5
XChat.
#11
Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2005
Location: down the rabbit hole
Distribution: Debian Sid forever
Posts: 2,726
Thanked: 79
konversation or irssi using bitlbee, irc and IM all in one.
#12
Member
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Odense, Denmark / Citizen of the Web
Distribution: Slackware 12.2
Posts: 823
Thanked: 3
Irssi for IRC, Gajim for Jabber.
Last edited by mjjzf; 01-10-2009 at 03:22 AM ..
Reason: Added comment
#13
Member
Registered: May 2005
Location: Greece
Distribution: antiX, sidux, Debian Sid. All using fluxbox.
Posts: 194
Thanked: 2
irssi for IRC
Last edited by anticapitalista; 01-15-2009 at 11:13 AM ..
Reason: spelling
#14
Member
Registered: Nov 2003
Posts: 43
Thanked: 1
i voted centericq , also i use empathy , seems to be pretty simple
#15
Member
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: New Zealand
Distribution: Kubuntu 8.10 || openSUSE 11.1 || Arch Linux 2008.06
Posts: 55
Thanked: 0
KMess.
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