Linux Gaim game QQ and MSN

Article Title: Linux Gaim game QQ and MSN. Linux is a technology channel of the IT lab in China. Includes basic categories such as desktop applications, Linux system management, kernel research, embedded systems, and open source.

1. What is Gaim?

Windows or Linux? Most of the time, the reason we choose is often one or two essential or handy software. Windows is obviously not the best, but many of the excellent software on Windows keeps us.

However, Linux developers have not kept up with the catch-up process for a moment. Even in the relatively weak desktop application field, it is still a young man, and there is a lot of development momentum. A typical example is Gaim.

Gaim was originally designed as the client of AOL's instant messaging software AIM. It can be seen from its name that Gaim is actually gnu aim. In the Instant Messaging field, competing with giants in Windows is obviously unrealistic, so Gaim developers have found a wonderful starting point. Gaim itself does not have communication functions, but uses plug-ins (usually a plug-in is a library file with the so extension, or a dynamic link library with the DLL extension in Windows ), therefore, it has the advantage of a large number of parents. Gaim is growing rapidly thanks to modular design ideas and open source code sharing.

If you want to use MSN In Gaim, use the MSN plug-in. If you want to use Yahoo Messenger, use the Yahoo Messenger plug-in. In short, it can be expanded infinitely. Gaim also has a unique advantage, that is, it can load multiple plug-ins at the same time. That is to say, as long as you open Gaim, you can use multiple instant messaging software at the same time, you no longer have to switch between different software as in Windows. Such a software structure also has the advantages of low system resource consumption and unified and standardized operation methods. The disadvantage is that some functions specific to instant messaging software cannot be used. For example, QQ plug-in currently does not provide the SMS sending function. But then again, Gaim does not reject the special features of the software, but provides "protocol functions" to implement the special features of the software, it depends on whether the plug-in developer has been designed.

The Gaim installation version comes with many popular communication plug-ins, such as yahootong, MSN Messenger, ICQ, AIM, and IRC.

If you do not want to abandon the Windows system that has been around for many years just because of using Gaim, it doesn't matter. Gaim has recently been transplanted to the WIN32 platform. The enormous power of open source and open-source is once again apparent-the software is applicable to users rather than users. With Gaim for Win32, you can enjoy the powerful features of Gaim in Windows.

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