Any experience with MS Messenger clone in Linux?

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 10:27 pm

Are there some guy who had tried some MS Messenger compatible program under Linux?
If yes AND it works, what is the program name?

KarLKoX · Post by **KarLKoX** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:06 pm

pidgin (gtk/gome), kopete (qt/kde) and amsn are a few examples of fully compatible (and tested by me) msn messenger (multi protocole) program under Linux.

Post by **Fred** » Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:16 pm

There is GAIM as well.

Joakim Christiansen · Fri Apr 20, 2007 11:16 pm

Fred wrote:There is GAIM as well.

GAIM rocks!

MrMat · Post by **MrMat** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 12:46 am

Pidgin is Gaim (it was renamed for legal reasons). It has slower file transfers than MSN and doesn't support a great deal of features but i like it. Mercury Messenger is supposed to support more MSN features but i haven't tried it.

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 9:20 am

Aha!, thanks, mhhh, i feel myself out-of-time with linux.
In fact, the Messenger compatibility was almost the only thing which retains me working inside the MSWindows world.
I must begin to seriously thinking to change to Linux (till now i was not serious with that).

WishMaster · Post by **WishMaster** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 12:17 am

Kopete is the best

Jabber, IRC, ICQ, MSN, AIM, ... what else do you need? GroupWise, Gadu-Gadu or Yahoo? It's all here.

bembulak · Post by **bembulak** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 5:57 pm

It's simple:
if you're stuck with QT/KDE then use Kopete,
elseif you're stuck with GTK/Gnome or GTK/XFCE then use GAIM.

If you have any other DE, WM, use what ever you want.

KarLKoX · Post by **KarLKoX** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:04 pm

KarLKoX wrote:pidgin (gtk/gome), kopete (qt/kde) and amsn are a few examples of fully compatible (and tested by me) msn messenger (multi protocole) program under Linux.

codemaniac · Post by **codemaniac** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 10:06 pm

KMess is a really cool and small MSN Messenger for KDE. It has a GUI similar to Windows Messenger and has a handful of features too!

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:13 pm

there are even Commandline clients for those of us who like the comfort of commanding their system instead of holding the mouse^^ for example centericq

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:41 pm

command line = comfort

Here is my definition; the maximum comfort is to transfer data between a machine (aka device, which can be a human or not human) and another machine (which can be another human or not human) in the fastest AND lazyest way

Nik · Post by **Nik** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:55 pm

hmm well depends on what you do, i think for most non Graphical tasks (I won't try Photo editing on the CLI) CLI can be faster and as easy as GUI if you know what you do. And for many tasks I use the CLI because it's less work, for example when I want to downlaod a huge file and I want to downlaod it comfortable I just fie up my terminal (1. click) and type in "wget " then I press strg+v and enter, thats much faster than I could do with a normal Download amager especially when the Terminal is already open. Another example would be to remove every textfile in a given folder (for example notes taht don't belong in your phtots directory) on the CLI I simply switch to the folder and type "rm *.txt" and thats it. Now try to do the same task in a graphical file manager. Let me give another example, I want to know wether progarm xyz is running, it's easy with a task manager but looking through the process list (when the program has no window for example) may take a few seconds on the cli I simply type "ps ax | grep xyz" and It shows me wether the program is running, I'm not realy a CLI Wizard but if I where there were even more tasks which I could do in no time on the cli.

If you look for example at a list like this: http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html
you might imagine the possibilitys.

Btw how long does it take you in Purebasic to write a program that sends random data to some host port to do stress testing.