Linux chat tool for internal network

ramdak5000 · 01-31-2005, 01:54 AM

Hello,

We are a non-profit running Fedora Core on LTSP in our office.

Is there software for chatting on our internal network? This will help us save a lot on bandwidth costs by sending intra-office messages through chat instead of email.

Thanks,
Ramdak

XavierP · 01-31-2005, 02:00 AM

Jabber is used by a number of organisations and businesses (the one I work for included) and works well as an internal/external chat client/server.

And welcome to LQ

ramdak5000 · 01-31-2005, 02:42 AM

Thank you, that was quick!

Ramdak

ramdak5000 · 01-31-2005, 02:50 AM

Just one question, though.

Would we have to install Jabber on every node or just on the server?

Thanks,
Ramdak

scuzzman · 01-31-2005, 04:10 AM

You could always use talk.

XavierP · 01-31-2005, 08:40 AM

You would need one Jabber server (configured to either only talk internally or internally/externally) and the Jabber client to be installed on each workstation. The Jabber clients can be branded with your organisation's logo/name, which is part of the reason that it is becoming so popular in the corporate world.