Subject: Re: Messenger, another newbie question
To: Rohan Nicholls <Rohan.Nicholls@informaat.nl>
From: Johnny C. Lam <jlam@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/26/2002 11:39:01
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 04:16:39PM +0100, Rohan Nicholls wrote:
> As most of my friends and family are not computer oriented, they are
> using Microsoft messenger, and as I am making the switch to NetBSD, I was
> wondering if there was a program that is compatible with the MS messenger
> for Linux or BSD, or will I have to use wine and install it on that, which
> I am not sure is very easy to do.

pkgsrc/chat/gaim is very capable, and I believe it supports all three of
the major commercial messaging services (Yahoo!, MSN, AOL).

	Cheers,

	-- Johnny Lam <jlam@netbsd.org>