[olug] Instant Messages/Chat

David Walker linux_user at grax.com
Sun Apr 21 19:51:00 UTC 2002


I've been happy with Gaim and XChat.
Gaim does irc, icq, msn, aim, yahoo, and jabber.
XChat just does irc.

On Sunday 21 April 2002 02:32 pm, CM Miller wrote:
> What type of chat clients do most of the folks on the
> list use?
>
> I've tried to ./configure Gabber to no luck.  And I
> have been using .tgz files, but it seems that during
> the ./configure part, there is always a dependency
> issue and so on and so forth.  I go out and get that
> file, and then there is another dependency issue.
>
> The funny thing is that I went out and installed the
> Linux AIM rpm and it installed without missing a beat,
> but I don't believe that it would work with IRC,
> Yahoo, and another other IMs besides  AIM.
>
> So what type of IMs are OLUG folks using on their
> Linux machines and is anyone here using Gabber
> w/Gnome?  If so could they give me some advise so I
> could get that up and runnin'
>
> thanks
>
> -Chris
>
>
>
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