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Posted by Durafei on Jan-27-2005 02:03:

Instant Messenger Client

What kind of Instant Messenger do you use ? I'm looking for a client that supports MSN, ICQ, AIM and Yahoo.

I'm currently using Trillian, but it takes up waaay to much memory, and is just plain slow.

Any better clients out there ? I'm interested in something with minimal GUI, and maximal performance.

Posted by dEsidEL on Jan-27-2005 02:07:

ICQ version 5

http://www.icq-4u.com/?pid=main&id=76

Posted by St_Andrew on Jan-27-2005 02:07:

i think this (gaim) would be something for you

awesome open source program

Posted by DigiNut on Jan-27-2005 02:44:

Miranda IM

Pretty solid, open source, everything is based on plugins (including the actual network connectivity, so for example if you don't use MSN then you can disable the MSN plugin to get better performance).

Used it for a while now and haven't felt the itch to switch.

Posted by DarkAngel on Jan-27-2005 02:48:

MSN and AIM. Yahoo also, but rarely.

Posted by VERTiG0 on Jan-27-2005 02:56:

Get more RAM.

Trillian 3.0 Pro rocks my socks.

Posted by rabbitjoker on Jan-27-2005 03:15:

e-messenger.net works great for me when i'm on firewalled connections (like the via train).

Posted by St_Andrew on Jan-27-2005 03:20:

quote:
Originally posted by rabbitjoker
e-messenger.net works great for me when i'm on firewalled connections (like the via train).

download gaim, you can use it through http

Posted by Surreal JRS on Jan-27-2005 19:10:

quote:
Originally posted by St_Andrew
i think this (gaim) would be something for you

awesome open source program

I was just abut to say Gaim.

Or, if you use KDE, then Kopete has excellent integration with the desktop and other K apps.

Posted by loca on Jan-27-2005 19:30:

quote:
Originally posted by SurrJRS
I was just abut to say Gaim.

Or, if you use KDE, then Kopete has excellent integration with the desktop and other K apps.

Kopete is quite good but i've found i had a problem with it when i switched to another username. It automatically adds all of my contact list to the other username's contact list. A bit strange, but i'm sure those little bugs will get taken care of soon enough. In the meantime i run Gaim or Amsn on linux and just msn on windows.