Note: The GTK+ package bundled with Pidgin on Windows can sometimes cause problems with the GIMP image editor. Just download it from the Windows download page and run the installer. It may also be a joke related to Gaim, since pigeons are game birds). In 2007, Sean Egan (the head of the project) announced that his team would rename their project “Pidgin” to avoid more legal disputes with AIM (the new name is a reference to the term “pidgin”, which describes communication between people who do not share a common language. Haller created a portable “launcher” called Portable Gaim (later renamed to Gaim Portable), which allowed users to take Gaim on their USB drive. Adam Iser created a fork of Gaim known as Adium which allowed Macintosh users to use Gaim without X11. The well-known free software repository named it Project of the Month for November 1998. Then, it started to add more protocol support by reverse-engineering proprietary protocols (and adding open protocols such as IRC or XMPP). Originally, Pidgin started out as an AIM clone known as GAIM (an acronym for GTK+ AIM, later changed to simply “Gaim” to avoid naming disputes with AOL). To be more specific, it can connect to AIM, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Google Talk, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, MSN, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE, Sametime, XMPP (the core technology of Jabber), Yahoo!, and Zephyr.
Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once. History of Pidginīefore I get started explaining how to use Pidgin, I had better spend a little time to explaining what Pidgin actually is. Part 1 deals with the history of instant messenger clients and protocols. Note: This is part 2 of an instant messenger series. Luckily, the free software world has an alternative that enables users to chat with users of all of these programs (and many more). In addition, many of these are proprietary and Windows-only (two big minuses for GNU/Linux users). However, these all take up hard drive space, RAM, and CPU usage.
Your boss may use Lotus Sametime, your colleague AIM, your friend Google Talk, and your kid Yahoo! Messenger. Today, everyone uses a different instant messenger.
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