Posted by Jim at July 8th, 2004

Not that anyone asked, but Gaim kicks butt.

Thanks to Ed who first mentioned it and Topher who reminded me of it’s existence, I am currently logged in to four different instant messaging services (AIM, Yahoo, ICQ, and Jabber). When you consider that no instant messaging service includes an official FreeBSD client, this is a good thing.

Especially good when you consider that couple weeks ago now, Yahoo cut off third party users from using their service, meaning that people could no longer log into Yahoo through Gaim, Trillian or a host of other applications. A few days later, the people at Gaim had a fix.

Too cool.

It is (in case you’re wondering) available for several versions of Linux as well as Windows. I don’t know if they have a version for OS X, but they do have the source code available. Someone’s probably got a version for the Mac.