IP Messenger for Linux

[iinfi1]

hi all,

I m looking at RHEL Desktop 5.2 and SuSE 10.

Do we have good ip messengers for either of the product? primarily for intra-office chat and file transfer?

there mite b quite a few available on google search ... but i wud like to know if anyone of you have actually used one which is good?

thank you

[Ivan Ferreira]

We use SPARK, I would recommend it:

http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/spark/index.jsp

[Heironimus]

If you mean an instant messaging client, Pidgin works reasonably well and is included by Red Hat. I assume SuSE also packages it since it's widely used.

The IM system to which you want to connect is also important because not all clients support all servers/protocols equally well.

[iinfi1]

well i was looking for a IP messenger only.

something which doesnt require a server to manage the hosts.

eg. myself n my colleague have a IP msgr, both of us on the same LAN sud be able to chat n transfer files without any 3rd party involved.

[Steven McCoy]

Not sure what you meant here: "something which doesnt require a server to manage the hosts.", but I've setup internal-only Jabber/XMPP servers for multiple customers using JabberD2.x, and it's worked great for them:

http://jabberd2.xiaoka.com/

Btw, we used pidgin as the client, but many different clients support XMPP.

HTH

[Ciro Iriarte]

He's looking for a P2P messenger, setting up a jabber server is not a bad idea, but if you don't have a dedicated server you can try one of these:

Windows Only
http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/i-n/network/messaging/article.php/c5419/

Linux/Windows (Java):
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=156803&package_id=175047&release_id=454963

[iinfi1]

sorry for not replying earlier.
yes i was looking at p2p options. our client needed something with which their office linux users could instant chat and at the same time transfer files between themselves.

[Ciro Iriarte]

For file transfer there's also Giver, i'm not sure it supports chat... Too bad it's only for Gnome.

http://idea.opensuse.org/content/ideas/easy-file-sharing

[Ciro Iriarte]

For the record, there's a KDE variation that can work with giver also!!!, it's called Kepas

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Kepas+-+KDE+Easy+Publish+and+Share?content=73968

[Ed Tillman]

I think he's looking for something akin to Winderz Messenger. Is there such a CLI-driven app the can be used in either a RedHat/Fedora or Debian/Ubuntu environment? I dunno that one, myself, but wouldn't mind learning of one...

Cheers;
Ed