Re: M$ Messenger clone on YDL?


Subject: Re: M$ Messenger clone on YDL?
From: Charlie Watts (cewatts@frontier.net)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 05:50:53 MST


On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Sean O. Denney wrote:

> Does anyone know if there is a MSN Messenger clone for YDL?
>
> <<<Let the flaming begin>>>
>
> I know, I know.... evil, etc. But my girlfriend needs to be able to
> use MSN Messenger for her work. She has a Performa 6400/200 and she's
> fed up with the snails speed of MacOS, so she want's to try Linux.
>
> My 6400/200 works great w/ YDL 1.2.1. I am going to let her test
> drive linux with my machine, but this is the one thing she absolutely
> needs.

Yup. I'm using gaim - gaim.sourceforge.net. I can make you an RPM if you
like. It also supports ICQ, AIM, Yahoo, and a few others.

It's actually a pretty nice client.

(There might be other RPM's available, but gaim changes pretty often ...)

-- 
Charlie Watts
cewatts@frontier.net
Frontier Internet, Inc.
http://www.frontier.net/



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