-----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-----