Gaim Releases Version 1.0.0
Found on Slashdot on Saturday, 18 September 2004
Congratulations to all in the gaim team as they release for download version 1.0.0 (changelog). For those who don't know what gaim is, you could read the full answer on their site but for the lazy: 'Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. It is compatible with AIM (Oscar and TOC protocols), ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, and Zephyr networks.' Gaim is also the 2nd most active project on Sourceforge and the 4th most popular on Freshmeat and seemingly all round #1 Free IM client!
I really like the idea of a cross-over chat application and therefore installed Gaim on my test system to see if I could import eg. the ICQ history. Since I was already connected, I decided to try it with IRC first. So, I quickly set up IRC in Gaim and connected. Worked fine so far. But then I typed "/part" into the channel window and it instantly crashed. At least that saved me from further testing...