Anyone know of a peer to peer messenger client for linux?

davee · 04-30-2007, 07:29 AM

Trying to do away with an (internal only) MSN server - looking for something that'll message between linux and windows desktops, preferably without a server(!)

Cheers in advance,
Dave

acid_kewpie · 04-30-2007, 08:00 AM

well Jabber (or rather the XMPP protocol) is decentralized to some extent but does still use servers in part. a number of implementations exist, have a look.

davee · 04-30-2007, 08:17 AM

Aye, jabber seems the best we can get so far. There seems to be a whole host of p2p stuff for windows though, thought there might be *something* for linux.

Cheers for the reply Chris,

Dave

acid_kewpie · 04-30-2007, 08:35 AM

well XMPP is a cross platform protocol, nothing to tie it to a particular operating system at all, indeed Jabber was primarily developed under Linux originally afaik.

reverse · 04-30-2007, 10:05 AM

You know .. last summer I was actually planning of developing a cross-platform P2P chat client. I gave up the idea when I thought nobody would ever need such a thing.

davee · 05-01-2007, 04:25 AM

Ah, handy. It's something that'll be used more and more I think. There is a pile of p2p windows chat clients. One of the best I've found is one from oz called 'tonic' - tried getting it to work under wine, with no success - you try searching for 'tonic wine' in google and see what you get(!)

Dave