[OT] Linux and chatting and M$

[Rich Edelman]

There's a few IM clients out there that can connect to MSN, with whatever 
protocol they are using... Those that come to mind right away are Gabber 
(http://gabber.sourceforge.net), Gaim (http://www.gaim.com), and I believe 
Everybuddy (http://www.everybuddy.com/en/index.php). I've never used Gabber 
(Jabber clone) or Everybuddy, but I do use Gaim every day. It supports 
plugins to do ICQ, MSN, and Yahoo messengers as well as standard AOL IM. 
Beware though, I don't believe any of the various linux IM clients support 
all the features their Windows counterparts do.

Rich

On Wednesday 24 July 2002 08:43 am, Brian Densmore wrote:
> I have a friend who wants me to MSN message with them. Not
> ever having had a need to use any IM/ICQ clients, I am wondering
> what MSN is using and is it possible to connect to M$ ICQ/IM/whatever it
> is?
> Excuse me if this is a stupid question, but google wasn't any help to
> me.
> I figured there's probably at least on Luggite savvy enough to answer
> this.
> Feel free to respond off-line.
>
> TIA,
> Brian
>