Pidgin (GAIM)

Craig321 · 17 May 2007 at 14:34

I was just looking for updates for GAIM and found they've had a whole new update & look and are now called Pidgin.

Download: http://www.pidgin.im/pidgin/download/ for all you people who use it

I just hope they haven't bloated it

I'll get some screenshots up when I've got it running.

Craig321 · 17 May 2007 at 14:48

I'm quite liking the new look

Still nice and simple, and quick.

Craig321 · 17 May 2007 at 17:07

I don't think it's quite up there with features compared to WLM.

WLM: Mem usage: 25mb, VM Usage: 35mb
Pidgin: Mem usage: 16mb, VM Usage: 7mb

It starts a lot faster than WLM (especially when WLM has MsgPlus on it).

Craig321 · 18 May 2007 at 00:20

MarcLister said:
Good news on the memory usage. So what major features does Pidgin not have then?

Can I still send/receive files and set a virus scanner to check those files?

You can definitely send/receive files, but I'm not sure sure on the virus scanning part. I would have though you could assign a virus scanner to it.

Craig321 · 18 May 2007 at 00:37

MarcLister said:
I've been running Pidgin for a few hours now. I quite like it. Much better compared to the Gaim v2 beta I tried a while ago.

I now know how to send a file but I can't see any antivirus option anywhere.

Doesn't look like they do have anti virus support built in

I checked the manual/FAQ and it says nothing about antivirus.

Craig321 · 18 May 2007 at 01:32

MarcLister said:
Perhaps it just leaves the antivirus to scan files, or assumes that it does?

Yeah, I guess it relys on you having an anti virus installed.

Any good anti virus will scan files as they're being downloaded, so I guess Pidgin didn't need to add a feature to assign a specific anti virus.

Craig321 · 18 May 2007 at 14:13

avrc said:
It's been renamed to Pidgin because of a legal tangle with AOL over "AIM" (AIM = AOL Instant Messenger)

Personally I prefer aMSN http://amsn-project.net

I can't believe GAIM gave in and renamed their product because it had the AIM letters in.

My guess is AOL copyrighted AIM... the GAIM people copyrighted GAIM...

So now if I made a company called Craigosoft would Microsoft be able to sue me/force me to change the name

?

Anyway... I'm more than happy just to let PC-cillin scan stuff on it's own when it's being downloaded