Berge, Harry ten wrote:

Hi,

What is 'the best' messenger tool on linux (KDE), which don't rely on the Micro$oft messenger stuff and what are the most used standards? You've Yahoo, AOL and so on. But what are the differences? What tools are provided by SuSE?

I'm fairly 'new' to messaging so some info on this subject is highly appreciated!

I'd suggest GAIM, even though it requires Gnome (or atleast GTK 1.4 it think). That is stable and support MSN protocol along with AOL etc. Try that out, it's available on SUSE cd's. I have used it over a year now and haven't had much troubles with it. P_S

Dear Harry, Netscape 7.02 includes an official AOL AIM client. It works like a charm for me on 8.1 and 8.2 PeterB On Thursday 08 May 2003 09:19 am, Berge, Harry ten wrote:

Hi,

What is 'the best' messenger tool on linux (KDE), which don't rely on the Micro$oft messenger stuff and what are the most used standards? You've Yahoo, AOL and so on. But what are the differences? What tools are provided by SuSE?

I'm fairly 'new' to messaging so some info on this subject is highly appreciated!

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* Berge, Harry ten (berge@hitt.nl) [030508 07:21]: ->Hi, -> ->What is 'the best' messenger tool on linux (KDE), which don't rely on the ->Micro$oft messenger stuff and what are the most used standards? ->You've Yahoo, AOL and so on. But what are the differences? What tools are ->provided by SuSE? -> ->I'm fairly 'new' to messaging so some info on this subject is highly ->appreciated! I would vote GAIM. I've been using it for a couple months now and it's preformed quite well. Secondly, since it does ALL the IM protocals you can just use the ones that you need.. pick what your friends and/or co-workers use and go from there. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I'll tell you what you should see.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 08 May 2003 7:19 am, Berge, Harry ten wrote:

What is 'the best' messenger tool on linux (KDE), which don't rely on the Micro$oft messenger stuff ...

So far, nobody has mentioned "Jabber" [don't know if that's good or bad, but...] A group of my friends convinced me to load this since we're working on a project and they already are in jabber's "network". The SuSE supplied client is called "gabber", and it seems nice enough [I haven't done "messaging" for years, so I don't have much basis for comparison] As it turns out, I was interested in jabber when it first appeared on the scene, just never did anything with it [this is one of the few messaging systems that YOU can set up your own SERVER, not just "be a client of someone else...", and I had the grand idea of offering this to members of my user group] In addition to all the traditional vertical-market messaging features, this expands horizontally in that there are "gateway" modules to AOL, Yahoo, msn, and the like -- you have to sign up for these seperately [since there is no corresponding "gateway" back to jabber] but it will transparently "merge" the various systems so you only need one client, not several [I'm fairly sure this is true of the others mentioned in this thread as well] Jabber is open source, and one of those "cross-licensed" sort of things in that there is the free-to-use/open version as well as a commercial-quality version managed by a for-profit company. (which means there is a jabber.ORG and a jabber.COM website...) my ID on this system is starman@jabber.org -- you'll note this is an "e-mail" like address, and in fact if I'm not "online", the system will cache messages to me "just like an e-mail" for when I return. It also means that you have a pretty good chance to get a "popular" handle -- each "node" of the jabber network is actually independant, but they are networked together so that you can still have an "instant" conversation with, say, someone@planet-linux.org, so-and-so@borderlinenormal.com, and so on (see the page http://www.jabber.org/user/publicservers.php for a listing of public servers - -- you essentially sign up with one of them and can talk to anyone on any other server...) Oh, and one last thing: every message, including "control" messages, are encapsulated in XML, so the overall extensability of the system is supposedly infinite... - -- Yet another Blog: http://osnut.homelinux.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://osnut.homelinux.net/TomEmerson.asc iD8DBQE+uqN3V/YHUqq2SwsRAv3bAJ9aamxmfB0yxXpL2q29MaS81ggKpACglbRb Ndk34UW++Dm757v65I0Q8fM= =HxAk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----