Re: [scottish] Laptop with a dodgy slow HDD

[mrl]

Subject: Re: [scottish] Laptop with a dodgy slow HDD

> I currently use ICQ & MSN and I am wondering if it would be possible to
> still be able to use these in linux.( I currently use a proxy server on
> one of my other machines @ home

 

Have you tried Jabber http://www.jabber.org ( or http://www.jabbercentral.org/features/ ) ?

 

It does AOL, MSN, ICQ and more.  There are plenty of clients Like Gabber (for Gnome).  It works well but only for text (here anyway).  It is platform independent (I think).

 

Also Yahoo messenger has a Linux variant for download (works well but just text IM, no Voice).

 

Another one worth considering is Gnomemeeting (http://www.gnomemeeting.org), it is like Netmeeting and supports H323 for Video conf.  I have it installed but have not gotten around to using it but the screen shots look good :)

 

>Also I would like to know if there is any Graphical C(++) compilers for
>linux. And If not is it easy to compile programs using a command line?

 

Check http://www.linux.org/apps/ for a graphical compilier, I have not seen any.  I am a total newbie to Linux and have really not had any problems using the command line.  I pressume you mean compiling sources ....  If so it is dead easy [./configure   make   make install ].

 

HTH

 

Mike