Gaim 2.0.0 Beta 6

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Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, and Zephyr networks. Gaim users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time. Gaim supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, and typing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features. A few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify you, send a message, play a sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of text replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification, iconify on away, spell checking, tabbed conversations, and more. Gaim runs on a number of platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Qtopia (Sharp Zaurus and iPaq).

Download: Gaim 2.0.0 Beta 6

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#1 Kreuger on 19 Jan 2007 - 16:30

How come their site hasn't been updated?

(1 reply) #2 ThaCrip on 19 Jan 2007 - 17:48

it's updated in there live bookmarks

GAIM is a nice basic chatting program (trillian went out the window as it started getting bloated)... by far my favorite third party chatting program.... it tends to suck if u gotta tranfer files between real MSN/AIM/etc etc client users as it tends not to work... but for general chatting i highly recommend it over the official chatting programs.

ever since v.2.0.0 beta5 the program is much more stable now.... the previous ones like beta4 on back i would get occasional crashes but those for the most part went away now.

#2.1 Nightwind Hawk on 20 Jan 2007 - 00:24

It's the opposite for me... betas before #5 have been great, and this one crashes frequently and goes up to 100 CPU usage after opening for about 20 seconds o_O Possibly a conflict with XP x64, but we'll see how this beta works!

#3 XeonBuilder on 19 Jan 2007 - 21:55

Its a nice program but i had to deep 6 that thing due to the horrible file transfer speeds. Trillian works much better and is not bloated. I have no clue what that other poster is talking about.

(1 reply) #4 BlackShadow on 19 Jan 2007 - 22:24

I personally like Gaim myself, I use it for IRC, AIM, and MSN and only 6MB of usage and that is really good for me

#4.1 XeonBuilder on 20 Jan 2007 - 07:39

Trillian only uses 8MB for me at least

#5 antoxicion on 19 Jan 2007 - 22:47

changelog?

#6 antoxicion on 19 Jan 2007 - 23:05

still no offline messaging for WLM

#7 Toology on 20 Jan 2007 - 20:25

I don't see any visual changes (thus far). Thanks for the news. I was wondering when they would release another update but I was hoping ti would be the final version.

#8 ziadoz on 22 Jan 2007 - 23:07

Beta 5 was great progress, but Beta 6 just crashes instantly for me on 32bit Windows XP. It doesn't even run once. This is from a clean install.

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