Re: [clug-talk] instant messenger compatability

2011-03-23 Thread TekBudda
If you are secifically looking at n MSN clone, take a look at aMSN (http://www.amsn-project.net). It is a pretty full-featured clone of MSN IM. My wife used it quite a bit & I have used it a little bit as well & I have been impressed. I myself prefer the multi-protocol IM stuff like pidgin or ko

Re: [clug-talk] instant messenger compatability

2011-03-22 Thread Greg King
In my experience none of the Linux IM clients have all the functionality of the MSFT messenger, but I have only used Pidgin and 1 or 2 others. They are usually fine for text messaging but fall short on voice calling and video calling. Even with text messaging I have experienced security / login

Re: [clug-talk] instant messenger compatability

2011-03-22 Thread simon
> Hi, > Our office wants to move to a MS instant messenger. Can Linux Ubuntu > work seamlessly with instant messenger? Thanks. - Jerry > Hi Jerry, There are a few Linux IM clients which work with the MS 'consumer' offerings. Since you are talking about an office, I would throw a comment of cautio

Re: [clug-talk] instant messenger compatability

2011-03-22 Thread Lance A. Brown
Pidgin, which is available on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X, handles just about every instant messenger protocol around. :-) For Ubuntu, in particular: http://www.pidgin.im/download/ubuntu/ --[Lance] -- GPG Fingerprint: 409B A409 A38D 92BF 15D9 6EEE 9A82 F2AC 69AC 07B9 CACert.org Assurer ___