From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 20 21:59:58 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B57C716A419 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:59:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: from outbound-mail-15.bluehost.com (outbound-mail-15.bluehost.com [69.89.18.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A1F313C448 for ; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:59:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (qmail 32518 invoked by uid 0); 20 Sep 2007 17:59:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box183.bluehost.com) (69.89.25.183) by mailproxy1.bluehost.com with SMTP; 20 Sep 2007 17:59:56 -0000 Received: from c-24-9-123-251.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.9.123.251] helo=demeter.hydra) by box183.bluehost.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1IYQJg-0004yu-3l for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:59:56 -0600 Received: from demeter.hydra (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by demeter.hydra (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l8JKIwHN062216 for ; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:18:58 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) Received: (from ren@localhost) by demeter.hydra (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id l8JKIvjG062215 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:18:57 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from perrin@apotheon.com) X-Authentication-Warning: demeter.hydra: ren set sender to perrin@apotheon.com using -f Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 14:18:57 -0600 From: Chad Perrin To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20070919201857.GA61887@demeter.hydra> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD Mailing List References: <20070920013338.GA4328@thought.org> <20070920013804.V2786@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> <20070920021653.GB4356@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070920021653.GB4356@thought.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Identified-User: {737:box183.bluehost.com:apotheon:apotheon.net} {sentby:bopbeforesmtp 24.9.123.251 authed with apotheon.com} X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - box183.bluehost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [737 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - apotheon.com Subject: Re: GAIM?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 21:59:58 -0000 On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 07:16:53PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 01:42:05AM +0000, Duane Hill wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 at 18:33 -0700, kline@tao.thought.org confabulated: > > > > > Folks, > > > > > > On my ubuntu srver I've used gaim for quite awhile. When I > > > looked for it with locate on my new server the file said it was > > > going away by fall. Is there ea new, improved port? > > > > It has been replaced by Pidgin: > > > > /usr/ports/net-im/pidgin > > > > See: > > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ > > > > > thanks to all you gents... i was going to ask why the name change but > it'll probly be with the src, luke. (.5-hearted ha ha) There's been some contention between AOL and the Gaim project for a long time. Initially, it was typically spelled GAIM (all caps), but that was too close to AIM for AOL's taste, so they only capitalized the first letter -- making it Gaim. Apparently, that wasn't good enough, either. Now it's Pidgin instead. I guess the only downside to the new name is that I can't make "I've got Gaim(game)!" jokes about it now. Well, I could, but they wouldn't make much sense. -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] Marvin Minsky: "It's just incredible that a trillion-synapse computer could actually spend Saturday afternoon watching a football game."