Journal t0qer's Journal: Gaim for win32 released, other cool things 7
Some of you may or may not know, I use windows as a primary desktop. I've
been on top of MS releases since 95 (unless u can count dos 3.3 through 6.22) No
negative zealotry comments please, I have my reasons and lets just leave it at
that.
So gaim has been
released for windows. Way cool! What is gaim? Well, I discovered it
a while back, when I decided to give RH8 a try as a desktop for 3 months.
It's a better instant messenger client than anything out there because of it's
interoperability between all the IM protocols out there. Out of all the
things I enjoyed during my 3 month RH8 gaim was #1 on my list, so much so I
installed it on my linux server and used
reflectionX to run the application in a remote X display.
I've been on the net since mosaic 1, I didn't actually realize that, but that
slash article confirmed this for me. Damn, 10 years....
The problem though has been people change e-mail addresses, but with instant
messaging this hasn't been a problem. I could stay in touch will all my "net"
friends without too much hassle.
Of course, IRC bleh exists. I used it for everything from chatting to
warezing, yay it sucks.
So for 10 years, i've gone through times where I either dropped contacts when
I switched to other IM clients, or I was running multiple clients, or I was
saying fuck this I aint runnin shit no more because it's a pain in the ass.
Then came Gaim
I gotta shower for work, gotta run soon. Oh, here's some
old school fun i've been playin with the
past week
--toq
Does it not (Score:1)
GAIM for win32 (Score:2)
Re:GAIM for win32 (Score:2)
Many of the disparaging remarks (from say, the Trillian message boards [trillian.cc] seem unfamilar with the concept of pre-release alpha software. They expected it work work perfectly, out of the box. As such, they downloaded an early alpha, saw that features didn't work or didn't exist, and therefore throught that Gaim for Windows sucked.
And also consider that GTK2 for Windows is still spotty.
Re:GAIM for win32 (Score:2)
Re:GAIM for win32 (Score:2)
Re:GAIM for win32 (Score:2)
This is alpha software (Score:2)
The current version is gaim-0.60a5, which is still quite a ways from a stable release.