4 IM Clients for Ubuntu
This article is an overview of 4 most popular IM clients available on Linux, and particularly in the upcoming release of Ubuntu, Jaunty Jackalope.
aMSN
aMSN (Alvaro's Messenger) may just be the most popular client for the MSN protocol, with an interface which resembles the MSN Messenger interface from Windows. aMSN offers a wealth of configuration options, allowing you to customise it to look just the way you want. By default it comes with six plugins, but many more can be downloaded and used. The same applies for skins, which you can fetch from the official website, then uncompress them into the ~/.amsn/skins directory. aMSN also provides webcam support.
Pidgin
Pidgin is the default IM client in GNOME.
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