[gentoo-user] Jabber Clients...

[Jerry McBride]

We run jabber at work for our IM solution. The client we decided to support is 
a commercial product named myJabber. Nice, easy to use, and works out to cost 
about $15.00 a seat. We've been runnig myJabber for over a year now, no 
problems... But much to my dismay, there's a new version of it out now and 
our current version, on all seats, is displaying "it's time to upgrade"... 
It's a free upgrade for us, but I'm not real happy that our jabber client 
software "knew" there was a new version available before I did.

Anyways... After a little searching around I find that there's a fairly new 
contender in the jabber client arena named Psi. It can be had for free at:
http://psi.affinix.com/. Psi is released under the GPL. More interesting is 
that Psi is in the portage source tree... Duh!

What makes this jabber client interesting is, there's a linux, mac and windows 
version that use the QT 3.x graphics libraries. It's simply beautiful on all 
three platforms. It also supports SSL/TSL which is a new twist for us and 
unicode for those that are more comfortable language other than English.

All in all, PSI has been a painless shoe in for me and I can't wait for Monday 
to roll around so I can call the myJabber people and tell them they can shove 
their spyware crap where the sun doesn't shine.


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