On Sun, 2003-02-02 at 12:51, Rod Elliott - Hush Solutions wrote: > Snippet > Steven Wrote: > > >> Regardless of whether anyone knows, the only thing > > > that I miss from windows is the MSN and ICQ functionality. What > are the > > > closest programs for linux that correspond to these two programs
Others here have pointed out nifty programs with MSN functionality. I personally really like licq for all my ICQing needs. Has a number of plugins for both communicating and the user interface, including one I find handy that lets me use it from a text console. It also has the extremely handy feature of being able to communicate over an https proxy - good if like me you're behind an... interesting firewall, or feel an inexplicable need to compress 100 byte messages through ssh tunnels :) Anyway, check it out: http://www.licq.org/ there are packages in mandrake and I'm sure every other distro has it too. HTH, James. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
