[GEM Development] Re: version of opengem for easy use for windows users

[Blair Campbell]

Did you try GAIM (gaim.sf.net)?  It's an MSN-compatible messenger, and
it might have more features.

On 5/11/06, veganalex <veganalex at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/05/06, Blair Campbell <blairdude at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Seriously though...I guess Debian has some serious advantages.  There is
> > > a massive community, it's highly regarded and highly tested.
> >
> > I have some experience with hand-configuring Debian files.  I have a
> > laptop running Debian and it is highly customized.  But usually,
> > Debian still automatically detects everything unless it's for some
> > hardware like wlan where many of the available drivers are not in
> > debian itself.
> >
>
> i had trouble with setting up my wlan card with ubuntu though, it may
> just be that there is not a linux native driver for it, but i ended up
> installing ndiswrapper and going through all of that stuff :D it works
> brilliantly though! - only thing that stops me from using linux as my
> main computing environment, is (1) the fact that there isn't an
> official msn messenger release for linux (i know there is amsn but it
> just doesn't have the same features ;( ); and (2) the fact that my
> games would not run on it! - which is a big part of what i basically
> do on my computer. along with just browsing :)
>
> anyway - i hope that wine advances to have dx9 support, and then i
> will almost certainly go over to using linux, as i DID get msn 7.0 (i
> think) running fine under wine before - but it just wasn't the same
>
> nevermind...
>
> veganalex
>
>
> > > I always kept away from Debian because I want everything to
> > > automatically work.  I'm not really interested in customising my system.
> > >  I used to use Mandrake, and now I am play with Ubuntu.  I guess for my
> > > friend's case..well..it's all about customisation.  She's going to be
> > > using the OS for rather complex purposes.
> > >
> > > She has commented that FreeDOS was a lot more friendly with regards use.
> > >  I guess this is something I felt too.  The CLI in DOS seems to have
> > > less bite than Linux.  Perhaps this is because DOS simply does less.
> >
> > But then again, the CLI in Linux is MUCH more powerful; you can write
> > scripts in bash that can do ten times as much as batch scripts.
> >
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> >
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Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change
color and fall from the trees.
   David Letterman (1947 - )

See ya