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Gajim - Jabber client

There are a whole lot of Jabber/XMPP enabled clients available. I recommend the pure Jabber/XMPP client Gajim.

Regarding my recommendation you might say why not just go with Gaim which is included in Gnome by default? Well I prefer and recommend Gajim over Gaim for three important reasons:

1. Gajim is a pure Jabber client which improved support for Jabber's protocol.
2. Gajim allows GnuPG encryption of transmitted messages.
3. It requires a little less system resources than Gaim (probably as Gaim additionally supports a variety of other protocols — and therefore more easily becomes a memory hog).

Gajim and Gaim's user interfaces are almost identical. However Gajim's interface takes more advantage of the full power of XMPP, something which Gaim does not.

Copyright © 2007 Daniel Aleksandersen 2007-01-06 at 11:01

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