Gaim

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Gaim
started by: PhrozenFear

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Posted by PhrozenFear on Feb. 24 2004,06:13

Instead of Naim, which from your description is an IRC / AIM client, why not get Gaim, an open-source client that does AIM, IRC, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, Jabber, and more (depending on the plugins).

The best one to get is Gaim 0.74-5 (comes with the Fedora Core 1 install) - that one still connects to Yahoo, then you're all set.  When they come out with the new Gaim 0.76 (still under construction), you can upgrade to that.

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Posted by hasty on Feb. 24 2004,17:57

DSL is restricted in size so John has to keep all the apps as small as possible.
Unless it is only a few bytes larger I doubt if he will consider it.

If you want to try to use it do a hard disk install and apt-get it.
Then post your results

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Posted by TyphoonMentat on Feb. 24 2004,19:46

Also, Gaim uses GTK+ 2, so it's out of bounds for DSL.

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Posted by Modrak on Feb. 24 2004,21:00

I'm using it on my laptop...it's great (and so the size :-)

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Posted by PhrozenFear on Mar. 06 2004,08:37

I know we have the size issue here, but I still thought it would be a useful idea, considering that nAIM and nIRC that it uses are, honestly, crap.

Anywho, I'm off to tweak myself a gaim-version of DSL - I've got a pocket-CD here that's still gt 130MB's to be full, so I'm gonna see how small I can make a DSL with Gaim.

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