From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 3 20:18:49 2010 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 46290106566B for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 20:18:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from mail.potentialtech.com (internet.potentialtech.com [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7D0C8FC18 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 20:18:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from overdrive.ws.pitbpa0.priv.collaborativefusion.com (pr40.pitbpa0.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.202]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CE5C7F7427; Tue, 3 Aug 2010 16:18:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 16:18:47 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: depocatcher@gmail.com Message-Id: <20100803161847.12608069.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <4C587815.2090601@gmail.com> References: <4C587815.2090601@gmail.com> Organization: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.3 (GTK+ 2.20.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Freebsd questions Subject: Re: lightweight Chat client/server? 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: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:18:49 -0000 In response to Depo Catcher : > > I have a combination of Spark (windows client) and Open Fire (FreeBSD > server, actually Java) for my lan. > We've used this setup for years, but the OpenFire server takes up ~500 + > MB. > > Anyways, we were looking for something a bit smaller. > We just need to send text messages to LAN users (less than 6) and > supports a nice windows client. > We're not suppose to use any external services (yahoo messenger, aol, etc) We've been using Jabber for several years internally. Works well and has clients for just about every OS I know of. Don't know if it could be considered lightweight, though, since it requires an SQL server on the backend. If you already have another SQL server in production, you could just install the DB there, as its DB usage is pretty light. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/