Re: Instant Messenger client

2007-06-01 Thread stuart van Zee
-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

Re: Instant Messenger client

2007-05-31 Thread Rafael Almeida
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.

Re: Instant Messenger client

2007-05-31 Thread Daniel Ouellet
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.

Re: Instant Messenger client

2007-05-31 Thread Joost
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

Instant Messenger client

2007-05-30 Thread stuart van Zee
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

Re: Instant Messenger client

2007-05-30 Thread michael enoma aghayere
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

Re: Instant Messenger client

2007-05-30 Thread stuart van Zee
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

2007-05-30 Thread Jason Beaudoin
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

Re: Instant Messenger client

2007-05-30 Thread Diana Eichert
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

2007-05-30 Thread Clint Pachl
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

Re: Instant Messenger client

2007-05-30 Thread L. V. Lammert
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