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aMSN 0.95 Released
An anonymous reader writes "After more than a year since their last update aMSN has published version 0.95. New features include 'webcam support, tabbed chat windows, improved skin plugin support, new file transfer protocol, many new plugins (like Ink and Nudge support), an improved bug report system, as well as LOTS of bug fixes.' In addition to many new features and fixes the aMSN site has been given a face lift to (hopefully) facilitate ease of use."
Why not try a different source forge mirror? One of them must work at a decent speed.
Here is the sourceforge download page, following which you can select a mirror from.
In different areas different systems are popular. In Britain it seems as if MSN is used almost exclusively, and I know only two people who use different networks, although I am now using Google Talk with a few converts from MSN - so that is six more people off MSN messenger. However, I know a lot of American people that use AIM, and MSN seems (as you said) to be somewhat of a rarity.
Something messed up with their JS? On Firefox their menu renders into the middle of the page, but it looks fine on IE...
Two, three other packages that support webcams? Where's Gaim in the webcam support arena?
I like Gaim the best of all the packages but it's lack of webcam support is sad.
BTW, what would be a good choice of webcam to buy for Linux that is likely
to work well with whatever comes along? Something economical but solid.
I don't want to waste $10 on a POS cheap cam but I don't want to spend $200 either..
Come on Gaim, get with the program!!
Here's working links to the aMSN download as the ones on the site seem dead...
Linux Installer (need llibstdc++.so.6)
AutoPackage
Debian
Ubuntu
Fedora Core 3
Fedora Core 4
Mandriva 2006 (Formerly Mandrake)
Slackware
Archlinux
Gentoo
Other
"Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses." - Arthur C. Clarke.
IIRC, the motivation was to write a complete MSN Messenger clone that would run outside Windows - i've tried it a few times on Linux, and while i like GAIM much better, it really feels and behaves like the official client. It might help non-techincal users that need MSN to switch easier.
The mirror system is bypassed because the packages haven't been synced to all servers yet. If we were to use the mirrors, you would be getting mirror failed messages for most.
Cheers,
RoadkillBunny
This has been fixed in Tcl/Tk 8.5 as it uses anti-aliased fonts. It is still in beta, but feel free to try it out. http://www.tcl.tk/
Cheers,
RoadkillBunny
Microsoft intimidated the virtualdub author about asf support so he had to remove it.
Well, all I can say is that successive incarnations of Firefox on Fedora are an embarrassment. I cross my fingers that none of my clients are viewing the websites I design for them with Firefox/Linux. 1px CSS borders turn into dotted borders and line spacing is almost doubled. I'm sure if I tweaked xorg somewhere I could get it right, or maybe it's how Firefox integrates with xorg. Who knows? All I know is it ain't ready for prime time and no-one at Mozilla.org seems to care.