We bring to you an interview with Alvaro J. Iradier, founder and lead developer of AMSN (Alvaro's Messenger), a full-featured MSN compatible client, written in tcl/tk.
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Member since:2005-07-08
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
Member since:2005-08-07
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.
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2006-07-12
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