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jimmythepleaser · Post by **jimmythepleaser** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:30 pm

I was just wondering what people thought the best IM apps were, I want to use gentoo for my desktop now, and need to find an app to replace MSN.

ToucanMan · Post by **ToucanMan** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 12:54 pm

Gaim and Kopete are both great IMs with MSN support.

frekiR · Post by **frekiR** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 1:46 pm

I vote for aMSN; if you like the microsoft version then you'll love amsn

$ emerge amsn

Raoul_Duke · Post by **Raoul_Duke** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 2:28 pm

If you only need msn then amsn is all you need......if you might need other protocols then look at gaim or kopete or jabber

carlivar · Post by **carlivar** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 3:56 pm

I greatly prefer Yahoo Instant Messenger. They make a native Linux version. Support it!

Carl

Yen · Post by **Yen** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 5:47 pm

frekiR wrote:$ emerge amsn

$ ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge amsn
This will install the latest version

Ateo · Post by **Ateo** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 7:30 pm

Gaim user here. Gaim user since before the turn of the century.. =)

christsong84 · Post by **christsong84** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 7:34 pm

-Amoeba- wrote:Gaim user here. Gaim user since before the turn of the century.. =)

ditto

slarti` · Post by **slarti`** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 9:50 pm

GAIM is nice, but I prefer centericq. The MSN support has been re-merged with the CVS - I'm eagerly anticipating the next release when I will be able to use it for MSN as well.

You might also be interested in bitlebee, which is an IRC-to-IM gateway, and quite an impressive project.

I would also be lying if I said I was that impressed by a GAIM developers attempt at trolling on bugzilla a while ago too, which has to be a bit of a factor.

Kopete works, too.

ikaro · Post by **ikaro** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 10:14 pm

I use gaim but im really getting tired of it :evil: i get disconnected from everything at least a couple of times everyday!
then it starts complaning about write error or something ...
:roll:

tgourley · Post by **tgourley** » Tue Mar 02, 2004 10:22 pm

emerge gaim! Do it!

gwion · Post by **gwion** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 12:53 am

using sim for icq (somehow prefer it over kopete for icq but i cannot really define why) to communicate with my GF. but i am currently trying to convert her to jabber. should not be too difficult as she is using linux as primary os (mandrake, but probably switching to debian)

georwell · Post by **georwell** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 1:14 am

I use PSI with jabber. Great for offices intranets and totally secure for people connecting from the outside. Plus if you run your own servers then no one receives any spam either.

Lord Bob · Post by **Lord Bob** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 5:33 am

Kopete works well here. A few I have used in the past are:
CenterICQ
TKAbber
Gaim
PSI
aMSN

My favorite so far is Kopete, but the only reason I use it instead of Gaim is that it uses QT and I like QT better than GTK (don't know why, though). I hear CenterICQ will be getting MSN support again in an upcomming release. It is a decent console based client. I only used it for about 10 seconds a couple installs ago, though. TKAbber is a quick emerge and great for when you are installing or upgrading KDE/Gnome. I am glad I had the pleasure of using Gaim once. Very nice and very polished. PSI is a good Jabber client, but it has been a while since I used it last. aMSN is ok, but I personally do not like the "official" msn interface and therefore do not like the aMSN interface.

stonent · Post by **stonent** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 5:45 am

AMSN is almost a perfect look-alike for the real MSN messenger.

rvalles · Post by **rvalles** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 8:32 am

Psi.

It's of course a Jabber-only client.

http://www.jabber.org

mastergoon · Post by **mastergoon** » Wed Mar 03, 2004 11:41 pm

bitlbee kicks ass

dgt84 · Post by **dgt84** » Thu Mar 04, 2004 11:24 pm

Gossip is an excellent, easy to use messenger for GNOME. It's currently centered on the Jabber protocol, but this is changing to expand to all protocols, and the client is not being designed specifically around Jabber anymore.
I should mention I made the app and presence icons for the latest releases

Code: Select all

emerge gossip

joejag · Post by **joejag** » Sat Mar 06, 2004 9:14 pm

For anyone using KDE3.2 I recommend they check out Kopete, I used Gaim for ages since Kopete was easily the buggiest piece of linux software I've ever used, I reckon Kopete probably delayed KDE3.2 on it's own!

But still, since KDE3.2 (when it was intergrated into KDE) it has appeared stable for me so I would recommend Kopete to someone on the look out for a new IM that doesn't clone the native windows IM clients.

I went off Gaim as I think it didn't support file transfers for all protocols (either msn/icq one of them anyway). Though it has a lovely interface as does Kopete

Corky · Post by **Corky** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 1:37 am

If you're an IRC user try bitlbee, it really easy to use with low resource demands, supports aim, msn, jabber etc..

I just started using it myself a few days ago, and have been very impressed, you don't even need to emerge anything new, gotta love those virtual IRC channels

madchaz · Post by **madchaz** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 9:53 pm

carlivar wrote:I greatly prefer Yahoo Instant Messenger. They make a native Linux version. Support it!

Carl

I never did manage to find it ...

Gibberx · Post by **Gibberx** » Sun Mar 07, 2004 10:32 pm

madchaz wrote:
carlivar wrote:I greatly prefer Yahoo Instant Messenger. They make a native Linux version. Support it!

Carl
I never did manage to find it ...

Yahoo! and AIM both have native Linux versions, but they were both made around 2001, never updated since.

jjasghar · Post by **jjasghar** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 2:48 am

madchaz wrote:
carlivar wrote:I greatly prefer Yahoo Instant Messenger. They make a native Linux version. Support it!

Carl
I never did manage to find it ...

Here you go --> Unix Yahoo Messanger No webcam or voice support though....but accroding to the newsgroups its "on its way"

shm · Post by **shm** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 3:31 am

i'm in love with kopete.

shredz · Post by **shredz** » Wed Mar 10, 2004 7:17 pm

KDE user here, so I have kopete and loving it (except ctrl+enter).

Any IM programs out there that support msn webcam communication yet ?