Pidgin 2.0.0

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Pidgin (the messaging client formerly known as Gaim) released 2.0.0 binaries (source code too!) for Windows and Fedora Core on May 4th. It integrates three years of Summer of Code Gaim projects. They also got a brand spakin' new website with a funny looking pigeon as their logo.

More Information: Pidgin 2.0.0
Change Log: Pidgin ViewMTN: File ChangeLog in revision [8c0ef1cb..]

[David]

Awesome! Thanks for posting this for us.


The meaning of the word Pidgin is also kind of cool:

Originally Posted by Google-Define

A pidgin is a new language which develops in situations where speakers of different languages need to communicate but don't share a common language. The vocabulary of a pidgin comes mainly from one particular language (called the "lexifier"). An early "pre-pidgin" is quite restricted in use and variable in structure. But the later "stable pidgin" develops its own grammatical rules which are quite different from those of the lexifier. ...

[Jeff]

I downloaded and installed the Windows version, but it crashes every time I try to activate the Yahoo service. Has anyone had success with it? It's working fine with MSN, AIM and ICQ.

Pidgin shows promise if the stability issues can be worked out.

[AwesomeSauce]

I'm actually having issues with connecting to MSN.

I downloaded the Pidgin source code and compiled it for my machine, and things seemed like a success until I tried connecting to MSN. It says "SSL support is needed for MSN. Please install a supported SSL library."

So I downloaded some various SSL packages that I thought should have worked, but no avail. Anyone else have this issue?

[David]

What OS are you compiling for? Did you use the openSSL package?

[AwesomeSauce]

I use Ubuntu 7.04. I went into Synaptic and did a search for "openssl" and several of the results are already installed, including a package that's simply called openssl. Is there something else I have to do?

[David]

I don't use Ubuntu...however have you installed openssl-devel? or whatever the equivalent for a developer/source package is for ubuntu?

[AwesomeSauce]

Well, I guess after making sure I had the right packages, I recompiled Pidgin and it connected just fine. Thanks for caring.

And as Jeff mentioned, this program certainly has some stability issues. Yeesh. After starting it, I can expect it to close by itself again at any given time.

[David]

Glad you got it working!

Those instability issues will probably be cleared up in later releases. I'm sure they're widespread enough that the developers are working on it.

[joy_deep]

Check first if you have any duplicate contacts in the buddy list.