Re: Instant Messenger client
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rafael Almeida Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 5:57 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Instant Messenger client On 5/30/07, stuart van Zee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a good, easy-to-use client for Yahoo instant messenger in the ports tree. I do an internet radio show (definitely not OpenBSD topical) and I need one that an intern can use on my spare laptop to interface with listeners etc. The laptop will be running OpenBSD 4.1 w/X and he will also be using firefox to check Yahoo email. please note, our intern is STUPID so he needs something fairly easy to use. People have told you about gaim (pidgin), which is great, and it's the one I use, but there are other options, like Kopete and centericq. PS: it's not very polite of you calling your intern stupid. Yes, I see your point, and usually I am a much more polite person but in this case it's an internet radio show and he's the one that signed up to be the character The Intard, after a while it just kinda becomes habit to be rude to him. Sorry if I offended anyone. s
Re: Instant Messenger client
On 5/30/07, stuart van Zee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a good, easy-to-use client for Yahoo instant messenger in the ports tree. I do an internet radio show (definitely not OpenBSD topical) and I need one that an intern can use on my spare laptop to interface with listeners etc. The laptop will be running OpenBSD 4.1 w/X and he will also be using firefox to check Yahoo email. please note, our intern is STUPID so he needs something fairly easy to use. People have told you about gaim (pidgin), which is great, and it's the one I use, but there are other options, like Kopete and centericq. PS: it's not very polite of you calling your intern stupid.
Re: Instant Messenger client
Rafael Almeida wrote: PS: it's not very polite of you calling your intern stupid. That is sure true, but see, if the radio show can get by with what they call STUPID intern that are use to interface with listeners, may be that also tell you about the show itself and/or it's listeners may be. (; But you are 100% right, sure is not nice.
Re: Instant Messenger client
On 5/31/07, Rafael Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/30/07, stuart van Zee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a good, easy-to-use client for Yahoo instant messenger in the ports tree. People have told you about gaim (pidgin), which is great, and it's the one I use, but there are other options, like Kopete and centeric Kopete's yahoo support on OpenBSD is broken, so that's not an option.
Instant Messenger client
Does anyone know of a good, easy-to-use client for Yahoo instant messenger in the ports tree. I do an internet radio show (definitely not OpenBSD topical) and I need one that an intern can use on my spare laptop to interface with listeners etc. The laptop will be running OpenBSD 4.1 w/X and he will also be using firefox to check Yahoo email. please note, our intern is STUPID so he needs something fairly easy to use. Stuart van Zee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ya can't fix stupid
Re: Instant Messenger client
On 30/05/07, stuart van Zee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a good, easy-to-use client for Yahoo instant messenger in the ports tree. I do an internet radio show (definitely not OpenBSD topical) and I need one that an intern can use on my spare laptop to interface with listeners etc. The laptop will be running OpenBSD 4.1 w/X and he will also be using firefox to check Yahoo email. please note, our intern is STUPID so he needs something fairly easy to use. Gaim? It's compatible with AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, Novell GroupWise, and Zephyr networks. And simple enough to use. -- ~michael www.bsdqed.com
Re: Instant Messenger client
Thank you to everyone that replied. I knew someone here would have the perfect answer. I overlooked gaim because it has aim in the title and thought it would be an AOL client. Needless to say, I do little to no instant messaging myself or I would have already had an instant messenger. s
Re: Instant Messenger client
snip Gaim? It's compatible with AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, Novell GroupWise, and Zephyr networks. And simple enough to use. Note that as of gaim's 2.0 release, the project has been renamed to pidgin I've been using it in linux for quite some time now with no problems, but I am not sure how it runs on openbsd (though I'd expect no issues). ~Jason
Re: Instant Messenger client
If you're running a recent post 4.1 install there is also net/pidgin, a port for it was added to the tree on May 28th. diana
Re: Instant Messenger client
stuart van Zee wrote: Does anyone know of a good, easy-to-use client for Yahoo instant messenger in the ports tree. Alternatively, you could use a web app. Meebo.com is a very cool web interface to ICQ, Jabber, AOL, Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft IMs. I've used Gtalk via meebo.com on Mozilla Seamonkey without flash or java enabled (I believe it is mostly javascript/AJAX with limited server-side) and it worked surprisingly well. I do an internet radio show (definitely not OpenBSD topical) and I need one that an intern can use on my spare laptop to interface with listeners etc. The laptop will be running OpenBSD 4.1 w/X and he will also be using firefox to check Yahoo email. please note, our intern is STUPID so he needs something fairly easy to use. Stuart van Zee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ya can't fix stupid
Re: Instant Messenger client
On Wed, 30 May 2007, Diana Eichert wrote: If you're running a recent post 4.1 install there is also net/pidgin, a port for it was added to the tree on May 28th. diana FYI, I was just looking for GAIM on another machine and it seems to have been *replaced* by Pidgin. Lee
