Yahoo releases their Messenger for Linux/FreeBSD

As the title says - Yahoo released their Yahoo Messenger for Linux and for FreeBSD. You can find it here. The Linux versions have been tested on Redhat 6.0,6.1 and 6.2. I really hope that Yahoo will think more about Linux/BSD users who want to use other Yahoo's services like Yahoo's Financevision service. Do you hear me Yahoo?

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Re:everybuddy

[TheHaas]

I concur - I have been using Everybuddy for quite a few months, and have had no troubles with it. It's fast, and friendly, and it checks spelling.=)

The thing is - I have some friends on Yahoo, and some on ICQ. The fact that you can talk to them all with one program (and people who use AIM and M$ IM, which I have never used), it's fanstastic. Add to the fact that it's free (as in speech) makes it even better.

so, check it out - http://www.everybuddy.com

- mikeh

Linux PPC

[isolation]

We really need to push for Real Player, AIM and Yahoo on linux PPC also.

jabber!!

[semis]

www.jabber.com.
Nuff said.

First AIM now Yahoo messenger

[stakk]

Now I will be just as unproductive in Linux as I was in Windows. I for one am damn happy official messengers are being created. I need to keep in touch with all my windows friends ya know.

Wait I haven't got any windows friends...

A Great First Step

[IntelliTubbie]

Now that they've released Instant Messanger, it's only a matter of time before they release their popular Instant Messenger software! BSD freaks and spelling geeks rejoice!

Cheers,
IT

It works great for me

[Spirilis]

/usr/local/bin/ymessenger has been great so far, but file uploads don't work; in fact when I last tested it, file uploading caused the connection to drop. Haven't tested file downloads since I haven't tried it with any Windows users who have a more well-developed yahoo client. Funny thing is, ymessenger didn't tell me my connection dropped... I was just going by the 'spirilis has logged off' message from Yahoo chat. It uses GTK 1.2 for its GUI, and I think it's pretty sleek.

Makes me wonder, though; Yahoo just sorta released it shortly after AOL released AIM for Linux... I guess Yahoo had this client all along? It's version 0.93.0 so unless they're playing a version number game, they've been developing it for a while... All around sleek looking though. For other open-source Yahoo clients, check out Chimmy's Yahoo Client (ncurses/console based), GTKyahoo (the link off freshmeat 404's for me... hmm--it's www.unixtools.org/gtkyahoo/) and Everybuddy.

Everybuddy does ICQ, AIM, Yahoo and MSN messengers... but the buddy list interface takes some getting used to.