The Linux operating system has gone through a number of “default” chat applications. From the earlier text-based chats like zicq, to the later Gaim, then to Pidgen (still in use), and now (and, hopefully, finally) GNOME has settled on Empathy.
Empathy is a messenging program built upon the Telepathy protocol which is based on Gossip. With [...]
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jan 27th, 2010
- Comments: 10
Want to chat on Linux? Better have Empathy
- Author: Jack Wallen
- Published: Jan 23rd, 2010
- Comments: None
Install and use xchat to take Ubuntu classes
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Hydra IRC Client
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