On 01/11/2012 08:35 AM Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > On 01/11/2012 01:52 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 01/11/2012 06:45 AM, ken wrote: >>> I used to use jabber for chats. But I don't find it in centos 5.7 >>> anymore. Is it still around? Or has something else taken its place? >>> >>> What do people using 5.7 use these days? >>> Is there anything which handles MSN? >>> >>> tia. >> Pidgin is the IM client included in CentOS ... I think it supports MSN >> and Yahoo chats. > > It supports 18 protocols, even facebook chat (plugin maybe) > > Jabber is actually Google Talk/Jabber/XMPP protocol, just with different > servers. Thanks, guys. Pidgin works pretty good. It didn't list any jabber servers that I could see, at least not the one I used to use. I wanted to encrypt the connection both ways, which jabber did. And you have to create an account-- e.g., on ICQ or AOL-- separately. But that's okay. Got it going. It works fast, much faster and much less of a cpu load than chatting on facebook. Thanks again.