On Friday 13 Jan 2006 15:05, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > On January 12, 2006 23:40, John Layt wrote: > > On Friday 13 January 2006 18:24, rikona wrote: > > > AC> if you have a hotmail account, it's your username on MSN. If not, > > > AC> you can easily create an account at www.passport.net with the > > > AC> e-mail address of your choice. > > > > > > Thanks, Albert and Chuck, for the info. Funny they didn't mention that > > > on the web site. :-) > > > > And for KDE users out there, if you go into Kopete and choose to add a > > new MSN Account, it even provides a button to click on that takes you > > straight to the passport registration page. Same goes for AIM, Yahoo and > > all teh other protocols Kopete supports. > > > > John. > > There's also a package called amsn that is supposed to be closer to MSN in > UI and functionality. I've never used it, but my son preferred it over > gaim. It seemed to me to be responsible for a number of system hangs under > Mdk 2005LE, though, and possibly under 10.1 as well (haven't set yp 2006 > yet).
My daughters have just switched to amsn because the latest 0.95 release supports webcams. They much prefer amsn to gaim even without the webcam. Stability of the 0.95 release is fine. I have had no issues at all. There is a Mandriva rpm of amsn-0.95 on the project page I think. BTW: I had to compile a driver to get my daughter's logitech messenger webcam to work with Mandriva 2006. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
