On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 07:16:53PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 01:42:05AM +0000, Duane Hill wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 at 18:33 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: > > > > > Folks, > > > > > > On my ubuntu srver I've used gaim for quite awhile. When I > > > looked for it with locate on my new server the file said it was > > > going away by fall. Is there ea new, improved port? > > > > It has been replaced by Pidgin: > > > > /usr/ports/net-im/pidgin > > > > See: > > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ > > > > > thanks to all you gents... i was going to ask why the name change but > it'll probly be with the src, luke. (.5-hearted ha ha)
There's been some contention between AOL and the Gaim project for a long time. Initially, it was typically spelled GAIM (all caps), but that was too close to AIM for AOL's taste, so they only capitalized the first letter -- making it Gaim. Apparently, that wasn't good enough, either. Now it's Pidgin instead. I guess the only downside to the new name is that I can't make "I've got Gaim(game)!" jokes about it now. Well, I could, but they wouldn't make much sense. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Marvin Minsky: "It's just incredible that a trillion-synapse computer could actually spend Saturday afternoon watching a football game." _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
