Also there is a wonderful thing called wine, which is a backronym for Wine Is Not an Emulator which basically provides a complete reimplementation of the core windows environment which means you can run some of your windows programs in your linux environment. The reason i mention this is although its not perfect, it can be very useful for running small applications, such as instant messengers, there is tcp ip support under wine and it has worked with older version of yahoo messenger, and icq. It may work with others including MSN Messenger etc.
There isnt support (AFAIK) for usb devices and limited support for sound so it may or may not be possible to use voice features of such services, and theoretically if your application uses the twain API, you can use your webcams as well, although if it is usb or uses a special interface you may have dificulty getting that to work under wine. This is one of the features gnu messenger is looking to provide by using modular support of various io devices for each protocol they are supported on, so i would suspect that full audio visual support isnt really that far away for linux instant messengers. D On Sun, 2001-11-11 at 00:51, mrl wrote: > 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
