On Thu, 2006-07-20 at 22:24 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I've been following the various suggestions come from this list > about the possibilities Linux offers to chat: > my family want to use `messenger' and ICQ, and before resigning myself > to use MS Windows I wanted to check all the possibilities. > > My impression is that `gaim' manages to use the MSN protocol quite fine, > whereas for ICQ, nor `licq' neither `centericq' neither `gabber' (through > jabber network) can satisfactorily replace the richness of > original ICQ for MS Windows. They only allow the mere IM function > but don't really allow (as far as I saw) > wide users search or multiple chat. > > So I'll have to use MS Windows, although I wouldn't like. > If anybody has a different experience, i.e. finds that licq, > or any other application can perform those functions just or almost > just as the original does - and this means that I didn't manage to use > them properly - please let me know, I'll be glad to have been wrong.
On the Jabber network, GAIM will do multiple chat. Basically, you set up a conversation room (with a password if you want) and then either invite people or let them enter themselves. I don't know about the MSN network though. Perhaps you could convince the others to use GAIM on Windows and the Jabber network? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
