On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 00:44, Peter Hardy wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 22:53, Sayth wrote: > > Is mandrake 9 and win4lin a good option, the only thing I need windows > > for is my girlfriends MSn messenger, Shogun Total war and MS Excel. > Depending on what you use MSN for, you might find one of the many Linux > clients suitable. My personal favourite is gaim > (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/). Otherwise Win4Lin should run it just > fine.
There may well be problems using MSN messenger on linux come October 15th. Quoted from the gaim site "MS has decided that everyone should upgrade to MSN version 5.0 or higher. MSN v5 is the first to use their MSN Protocol v8, which is the first to use SSL for login. Now, we know how to login over this. This is not hard, and we will be supporting MSNP9, the latest version of the protocol, soon." "However, upgrading to this does not guarantee us anything. Whereas previously, Microsoft has let third party clients connect, they now require a license for doing so. They still encourage clients to connect to their network, so with any luck, we can work something out. If not, people may find a way to connect anyway, but the legalities of this are pretty obvious. Key words: "Intellectual Property" and "DMCA."" http://gaim.sourceforge.net/msn.php -- Tony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
