‘Messengers’ on Linux

Now I’m using Ubuntu for almost 2 months, I played around a bit more with two well know ‘messenger’ programs. aMSN and Pidgin (formerly known as GAIM).

I compiled & installed both from sources without problems and major efforts, and with aMSN I was able to use my own webcam and view others webcams.

Pidgin doesn’t crashed so far at all, compared to the *old* GAIM which did it, and it was quite annoying.

The lack of voice chat support in aMSN, and the lack of video/voice support in Pidgin are still major inconvenience’s, and at this level Linux loses the battle with Wind0ze.

So let’s wait until Pidgin 3.0