http://www.osnews.com/story/15165/Interview_Alvaro_J_Iradier_AMSN_Founder_and_Lead_Developer Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:47:42 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?142336 http://osnews.com/thread?142336 I have had some issues in the past using AMSN. Im not sure if it was the latest version, but the biggest issue i came across was that it did not import/organize my groups. It simple had online/offline. Which is very annoying, since i have a group of 70% of my list, that are there but i never really need to talk to them. So i keep this group hidden usually, but with AMSN i had to search through everyone online to find a person taht would be in my group of 10 school friends.

Other then taht great work on the client. Good to see progress being donw with video.

Personally i have been using gaim since my switch to Linux 2 years ago. I find that it is very stable, has support for MANY protocols i needs, (MSN, ICQ, Gadu-Gadu), and a vast array of Plugins to further my enjoyment of the program. With version 2 set to come out soon, i think people should give this 1 a try as well.

I think that this program is doing a great job, and if there was more developer support could be a great program, but as long as its only supports MSN(which the name implies will stay that way) its not the client for me. Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:49:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (elzurawka) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?142348 http://osnews.com/thread?142348 I cannot decide on which client to use... aMSN or gaim, the clincher would be the one that supported XFire protocols.

The gaim plugin for that is no longer in development and it does not work with Ubuntu 6.06 Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (raver31) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?142367 http://osnews.com/thread?142367 I registered just to say that AMSN is an excellent piece of software. For everyone that has struggled to move from the official MSN client to GAIM then AMSN is exactly what you're looking for.

The latest releases are superb and have none of the above mentioned 'grouping' problems.

It does exactly what it says on the tin. Its an ad free, lite, alternative MSN client for linux, OSX and windows. Roll on 0.96 Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (osjohn) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?142384 http://osnews.com/thread?142384 If the grouping issues are gone, maybe ill give it a shot on my laptop, does neone know if its in yum(linva)?
What would you say advantages of AMSN are over Gaim, i have not really had any issues with with gaim except for the random crash, but i am running the beta's for 2.0.0 Wed, 12 Jul 2006 20:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (elzurawka) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?142424 http://osnews.com/thread?142424 It supports groups, and has for a long time. You just have to activate it :-)

It is *the* best MSN-client for other systems than Windows. But I don't use MSN any more. I cut contact with almost all my friends, only those that use Jabber is allowed my company now ;-) Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Velmont) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?142442 http://osnews.com/thread?142442 i have found amsn my personal favorite over gaim, it just has a smoother layout for my taste. getting that webcam support takes it up a notch or two also. Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (mark_in_rdjbrasil) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?142509 http://osnews.com/thread?142509 What would you say advantages of AMSN are over Gaim, i have not really had any issues with with gaim except for the random crash, but i am running the beta's for 2.0.0

Gaim is a general purpose instant messaging client designed to work with most protocols available, supporting the least common denominator of all of them. aMSN, on the other hand, is designed specifically with MSN in mind and tries to support as many MSN-specific features as possible. For example, it has support for custom animated smileys, nudges, etc. MSN users are known for using lots of graphics like animated smileys and flash graphics when communicating, and aMSN provides at least part of that functionality in Linux. Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:18:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (djst) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?142515 http://osnews.com/thread?142515 Gaim is a general purpose instant messaging client designed to work with most protocols available, supporting the least common denominator of all of them

Thats pretty misleading. Gaim does support several protocol specific features. While they indeed try to maintain a similar interface between these protocols, they dont inherently limit themselves to only supporting features that all of the protocols support.

On the other hand, the focus of AMSN does yield some unique benefits currently. Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Rahul) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?142579 http://osnews.com/thread?142579 Just installed it on SLED10, and functionality wise it's great, but it is soooooo ugly.

Is there any way at all of enabling anti-aliased fonts in aMSN? Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (nicholas) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?142663 http://osnews.com/thread?142663 Yup

http://amsn.sourceforge.net/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Frequently+Ask... Thu, 13 Jul 2006 16:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (osjohn) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?142708 http://osnews.com/thread?142708 yes, you need to compile it against tk/tcl 8.5 though. Some of the devs are working on a complete new UI, though. So the interface will be alot better soon. Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:07:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Jezza) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?144877 http://osnews.com/thread?144877 Thanks, so no quick way then? :-( Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (nicholas) Comments