June 18, 2008
When working with Linux and other Unixes, Pidgin allows users to use all their Instant Messaging (IM) accounts at once. Like the others licensed under the GNU General Public License, Pidgin is free software which can be used, modified and distributed along with the modified source code. It can be used to talk with friends who are using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell, GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpace IM and Zephyr. As users are able to log in to multiple accounts on different IM networks simultaneously, it is quite possible to be chatting with friends on AIM, talking to a friend on Yahoo! Messenger and sitting in an IRC Channel conveniently at the same time.
Pidgin also supports many features of different networks like file transfer, away messages and typing notification.
