Does anyone know of a good, easy-to-use client
for Yahoo instant messenger in the ports tree.
I do an internet radio show (definitely not 
OpenBSD topical) and I need one that an intern
can use on my spare laptop to interface with
listeners etc.  The laptop will be running 
OpenBSD 4.1 w/X and he will also be using 
firefox to check Yahoo email.

please note, our intern is STUPID so he needs
something fairly easy to use.  

Stuart van Zee
stuartv@datalinesys.com
Ya can't fix stupid

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Gaim?
It's compatible with AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber,
Gadu-Gadu, Novell GroupWise, and Zephyr networks.
And simple enough to use.

-- 
~michael
www.bsdqed.com

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Thank you to everyone that replied.
I knew someone here would have the 
perfect answer.  I overlooked gaim because it
has "aim" in the title and thought it would 
be an AOL client.  Needless to say, I do little
to no instant messaging myself or I would have
already had an instant messenger.

s

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Note that as of gaim's 2.0 release, the project has been renamed to "pidgin"
I've been using it in linux for quite some time now with no problems,
but I am not sure how it runs on openbsd (though I'd expect no
issues).


~Jason

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If you're running a recent post 4.1 install there is also net/pidgin, a 
port for it was added to the tree on May 28th.

diana

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FYI, I was just looking for GAIM on another machine and it seems to have
been *replaced* by Pidgin.

	Lee

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Alternatively, you could use a web app. Meebo.com is a very cool web 
interface to ICQ, Jabber, AOL, Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft IMs. I've 
used Gtalk via meebo.com on Mozilla Seamonkey without flash or java 
enabled (I believe it is mostly javascript/AJAX with limited 

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People have told you about gaim (pidgin), which is great, and it's the
one I use, but there are other options, like Kopete and centericq.

PS: it's not very polite of you calling your intern stupid.

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That is sure true, but see, if the radio show can get by with what they 
call STUPID intern that are use to interface with listeners, may be that 
also tell you about the show itself and/or it's listeners may be. (;>

But you are 100% right, sure is not nice.

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Kopete's yahoo support on OpenBSD is broken, so that's not an option.

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Yes, I see your point, and usually I am a much more polite person
but in this case it's an internet radio show and he's the one that
signed up to be the character "The Intard", after a while it just
kinda becomes habit to be rude to him.  Sorry if I offended anyone.

s

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