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Linux.com: "What do you get when you combine Firefox and Pidgin?"

Recently, myself and my colleagues at Pelagicore decided to try to ditch Skype f

TuxArena: "10 Instant Messaging Clients for Linux: aMSN, Pidgin, Empathy, Finch, Emesene and five more."

TuxArena: "Finch is a TUI (text user interface) IM client for Linux which uses libpurple, the same library on which the GNOME IM client Pidgin is based on.

Usually, if you have Pidgin installed, you should have Finch too"

Derick Rethans has announced the first official release of his D-Bus extension that makes it possible for PHP applications (and ones built in other languages) to interact directly with each other.

In the vast world of communication, instant messaging is a long-standing medium. Facebook has entered the scene relatively recently, as has Twitter.

If you use these newer mediums of communication and you're a Pidgin user then you may want to look at the Pidgin plugins for accessing them.

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OStatic: "Pidgin is a great GTK2-based instant messenger application that supports a bevy of protocols, including ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, and AIM.

It's a terrific app in its own right, but when you add some of these power tools, Pidgin is even better."

With the integration of the Telepathy framework into GNOME, most distributions are dropping the old instant messaging favorite Pidgin, for the new upstream application Empathy.

It's a reminder of the important role that distributions play in making choices for us all.

WorksWithU: "the Gnome application Empathy was set to become the default instant-messaging client in Ubuntu 9.10 upon its release October, replacing Pidgin.

But Ubuntu developers have been reconsidering that decision in the last few days."