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Old 04-26-2005, 08:46 PM   #1
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Best Instant Messangers?

I have been using Linux for a while now, and was wondering what people use for Messanging clients (Specificly one that supports AIM)
I know of only a few

Gaim
Kopete
AOL's linux version of AIM

I guess I would like peoples opinions of either those listed above and or other ones i havent heard of yet.
 
Old 04-26-2005, 08:55 PM   #2
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Re: Best Instant Messangers?
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Originally posted by f34r7h1s
I have been using Linux for a while now, and was wondering what people use for Messanging clients (Specificly one that supports AIM)
I know of only a few

Gaim
Kopete
AOL's linux version of AIM

I guess I would like peoples opinions of either those listed above and or other ones i havent heard of yet.
gaim- http://gaim.sourceforge.net

gaim supports msn, aim, yahoo etc. I love it!

Theres also nAIM but that is like a command line version, similar to IRC. There are some chat programs that come with KDE i think to.
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Old 04-26-2005, 09:13 PM   #3
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The best unknown client:
http://bsflite.sf.net

I've never looked at Gaim or Kopete since I started using this program.
 
Old 05-02-2006, 08:22 AM   #4
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messangers allowing webcam
is their anyway to get a messanger client to allow a webcam ?
 
Old 05-02-2006, 08:45 AM   #5
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amsn well let you use webcams with msn as far as I know the latest kopete supports webcam also
 
Old 05-02-2006, 09:24 AM   #6
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Check out this page:
http://www.linuxsoft.cz/en/sw_list.php?id_kategory=11
 
Old 05-02-2006, 09:45 AM   #7
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I failed to get both kopete and gaim working, but amsn worked first time...

By the way, it's messenger, not messanger.
Last edited by ioerror; 05-02-2006 at 09:47 AM.
 
  


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