Nowadays the instant messengers are a necessity, everyone use them and many people just know the windows live messenger and Yahoo! messenger, so when they start to use linux may miss them. But chill out, there is not reason to miss them, the next alternatives will kick them out of your head.
1.- Kopete: This messenger comes by default with the KDE desktop environment and is one of my favorites. Some features are:
- Off line messages. Before send a off line message you must be online open the chat window and then you can return to the off line mode to chat with your friend.
- Chat windows styles: this will change the way you chat with your friends, there are several chat windows styles that will rock your chat windows.
- Icons packages: You can download several icons,even the windows live messenger and yahoo messenger icons.
- Now listening: trough a plug-in you can show to your friends the music that you are listening with amarok, kaffeine, etc, etc.
- Show you when your friends open or close the chat window.
- Nudges.
- Several protocols are supported; Yahoo, MSN, Jabber, IRC, ICQ, etc, etc.
- Friends search.
- Display pictures.
- Webcam.
- Messages by tags in the same chat window.
- You can chat with your friends even though they be blocked. You don’t need to unblock them (admit them).
January 20, 2008 at 10:18 pm
God your English is crap! It’s a wonder anyone can understand you!
February 10, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Please leave our country and quit your job as technical support for Microsoft.
February 15, 2008 at 5:57 pm
First, I never have been in USA, Thanks God, I don’t need it. And even if I’d live in your country, why should I leave it? or anyone? just because you say so? jajaja, pobre parasito.
June 27, 2008 at 9:57 am
But there’s no google talk? I want google talk in it.
October 11, 2008 at 6:36 am
Anti-immigrant man, why don’t we instead focus on making education in our country so that we’re so much better at tech support than everyone else that no company worth anything would hire someone not trained at one of our fine schools. They don’t get hired just because they’re cheaper, they get hired because they’re better, the only jobs where being cheaper is enough to win the job are jobs that aren’t worth anything anyway. Please stop being such an idiot.
(Besides, unless you’re a 100% Native American you wouldn’t even exist with out immigration so WTF?)
Immigration isn’t what hurts our economy, what hurts it is the elimination of tariffs which encourage companies to go overseas to make their products and ship them back here. Focus on that too. Besides in my experience most people who don’t like immigrants are racist and the tariff issue has good opportunities for racist thought so it ought to appeal to you.
January 16, 2009 at 8:39 pm
You just nail it down man.
Congratulations