I've been following the various suggestions come from this list
about the possibilities Linux offers to chat:
my family want to use `messenger' and ICQ, and before resigning myself
to use MS Windows I wanted to check all the possibilities.
My impression is that `gaim' manages to use the MSN protocol quite fine,
whereas for ICQ, nor `licq' neither `centericq' neither `gabber' (through
jabber network) can satisfactorily replace the richness of
original ICQ for MS Windows. They only allow the mere IM function
but don't really allow (as far as I saw)
wide users search or multiple chat.
So I'll have to use MS Windows, although I wouldn't like.
If anybody has a different experience, i.e. finds that licq,
or any other application can perform those functions just or almost
just as the original does - and this means that I didn't manage to use
them properly - please let me know, I'll be glad to have been wrong.
Thanks, cheers,
Rodolfo