Gaim fixes critical security flaws
News Users of Gaim, the multiplatform instant messaging application, should upgrade to a new version to protect themselves from three newly discovered security holes. Gaim 1.5.0 was released on Thursday. It fixes a flaw in the way Gaim processes a...
[August 12, 2005, 15:35]
MSN Messenger overcomes smiley problems
Talkback GAIM and Jabber are free, a bit more secure and use open protocols. GAIM: http://gaim.sourceforge.net/about.php Why suffer through advertisments or bad security? There are even third party plug-ins which support public key encryption.
[April 11, 2005, 12:06]
Yahoo IM blocks Trillian access
Talkback I'm a GAIM user, so I've got lots of choices.my choice here is to tell all my yahoo buddies goodbye. I won't be back until I'm able to use GAIM to IM them. Frankly, I think it stinks that a service provider sees fit to tell me HOW I should access...
[June 24, 2004, 9:30]
IM gets perfect forward security
News The result, dubbed off-the-record (OTR) messaging by security researchers Ian Goldberg and Nikita Borisov, is a plug-in for the Gaim open source instant-messaging client that enables encrypted messages that do not leave a key that could be used to...
[February 15, 2005, 8:20]
Trillian users upset over Yahoo block
News For people who use popular third-party messaging clients such as Cerulean's Trillian, or smaller services such as Gaim, the reaction was instantaneous and negative. One developer who works on Gaim, an open-source IM integrator like Trillian...
[June 25, 2004, 8:55]
SuSE Linux Desktop review
Reviews The new version of Gaim had no noticeable glitches and worked in much the same way as Yahoo Messenger. As is often the case in the Linux world, an open-source alternative to the proprietary software is available -- in this case Gaim, a chat client...
[July 28, 2003, 8:23]
Red Hat Desktop 4 review
Reviews The Gaim IM client is also present and correct, but Red Hat asserts its business-like credentials by including absolutely no games at all: perhaps the only non-business item is the Sound Juicer CD ripper.
[November 15, 2005, 15:10]
Novell merges Linux tech into new product
News For example, a calendar item entered in Evolution will appear in the GNOME calendar, and an instant-messenger nickname entered in Evolution will appear in the GAIM instant-messaging client. GNOME components Evolution and GAIM will dovetail with...
[August 9, 2004, 11:30]
Ubuntu Linux 5.10 review
Reviews The operating system found most of the features of our hardware, including the network, and offered us the standard GNOME (2.12) environment with the usual applications -- most notably, OpenOffice 2, the Firefox browser, Gaim 1.5 for instant...
[November 24, 2005, 12:30]
MSN Messenger used for viral gang warfare
Talkback Just start using Gaim, no worries anymore
[March 8, 2005, 10:54]
MSN Messenger used for viral gang warfare
Talkback GAIM and Jabber are probably the two biggest. Friends don't let friends run MSN. Friends stuck on Windows still have better IM programs available to them and should be having anything to do with MSN Messenger.
[March 8, 2005, 9:41]
More iChat Smileys
Downloads This package is available for iChat 3, iChat 4, iChat 5, Skype, Adium, Mercury, Proteus, gAim or Miranda. Smile different with More Ichat Smileys ! This package installs additional smileys for iChat, various smileys or original creation smileys.
[August 29, 2009, 23:11]
Some of you are noobs, get linux
Talkback i know you might be thinking yeah but i wont be able to use msn messenger.check out GAIM its avaliable on most OS's and has most of the IM apps built in. no offence but quite a few of u are total noobs, i agree with the person who said to download...
[January 4, 2006, 19:02]
Linux scores big with Suse Enterprise 10.*****
Member Review One thing that stood out to me was a program called Gaim an instant messenger . Rick Anthony Beware window users: there is a new kid in town named Suse enterprize10. This is a very smooth operating system that is lean and mean.
[March 11, 2007, 9:15]
Introducing Linux for technophobes
News The disk comes with a variety of pre-installed open-source applications, including Firefox, OpenOffice, Sylpheed (for email), F-Spot (for viewing photos), xine (for music and video) and Gaim (for instant messaging).
[April 18, 2007, 15:25]
Ximian software gets SuSE support
News The updated Desktop 2, announced on Tuesday, adds the latest version of the OpenOffice.org productivity suite, version 1.1, and the GAIM instant-messaging client, and also includes standard features such as the Red Carpet software-management...
[January 7, 2004, 11:45]
iTunes DRM-free backdoor reopened
News Instant messaging companies such as America Online, Yahoo, Microsoft have long feuded with the makers of Trillian and Gaim , blocking and reopening access to the IM services. A group of underground programmers has posted code online they say will...
[March 23, 2005, 9:35]
Novell releases Linux collaboration tools
News In the next 30 days, Novell plans to announce plug-in support for Gaim open-source instant messaging. Network software maker Novell has announced software for handling email, calendars and contacts on Linux systems, as well as an automated patch...
[March 22, 2004, 10:10]
Instant messaging attacks rise in 2005
News FaceTime explained that exploits can jump networks through IM "consolidation" applications, such as Trillian or Gaim, that let users combine contacts on multiple IM networks in one list. Security attacks over instant-messaging (IM) networks became...
[January 10, 2006, 15:50]
SCO wants to undermine Linux foundation
News Numerous open-source projects besides the core, or kernel, of Linux employ the GPL, including the OpenOffice desktop software suite, the MySQL database, the Gaim instant-messenger software and the Snort intrusion detection program.
[October 29, 2003, 7:50]



