Re: [Fsfe-uk] feedback: Messaging Client - GAIM

[Adam Moran]

Hi Tom,

Tom Coady wrote:

> I have been asked to help in a community project that I visited 
> yesterday in Brighton. I noticed that the young people seemed to be 
> prematurely "hooked" on MS's hotmail and messenger. While I know hotmail 
> works fine with FLOSS clients, I have not tried using GAIM or similar ...  can anyone confirm that IM clients still
> work on linux desktops since the changes were made to the messenger 
> protocol?

Yes. It works just fine.

GAIM is neat has it allows you to sign on to many protocols at the same 
time and in the same way:

MSN
Yahoo
IRC
AIM/ICQ
Jabber

--
Adam