[WYLUG-help] instant messaging

[John Hodrien]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005, Mike wrote:

> Aah, gaim is there in the core repos - I don't know the names of these
> utilities. What I feel more guilty about is that, had I clicked on the
> red Fedora then Internet, I would have seen it is already installed and
> marked as an instant meesenger!!

No need to apologise.  I found gaim to be somewhat unreliable on some machines
(couldn't work out why) and found kopete to be a worthy alternative.

Equally gaim seems to have some limitations with jabber, and doesn't list
rooms that other software shows.

jh

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