After AOL repeatedly targeted individual Gaim developers with legal threats, major Gaim contributors created the Instant Messaging Freedom Corporation to manage the legal issues and open settlement negotiations with AOL. We talked to Pidgin project leader Sean Egan about Gaim's unexpected name change. I tried to enable the compile-time Mono option, but lacked the proper dependencies. I also compiled in support for spellcheck, D-Bus, and Perl scripting. Out of the box, my Pidgin 2.0 build includes support for AIM, Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise, ICQ, IRC, Jabber, MSN, QQ, SIMPLE, Yahoo, and Zephyr. Although Pidgin 2.0 has evolved into a robust and powerful program, the absence of voice and video chat features and a few minor weaknesses in the user interface detract from its usefulness and illuminate the need for additional work as development on the 2.x series progresses.įor this review, I compiled Pidgin 2.0 beta 7 using a tarball from SourceForge (Beta 7 is identical to 2.0 except for some very minor bug fixes). Rigged with a versatile plug-in system and an assortment of advanced features, Pidgin 2.0 is capable of competing with commercial instant messaging applications like Trillian Pro. Pidgin 2.0 is a highly extensible and cohesive platform for multiprotocol Internet communication that includes broad support for essential instant messaging features and common protocols. The official Pidgin 2.0 release, available for download from the Pidgin web site, provides an impressive level of quality and reliability. Many of the problems we discovered in the early Gaim 2.0 betas have since been resolved. Last year, we looked at the second beta release and concluded that much work still needed to be done. A significant improvement over the current 1.5.x series, Pidgin 2.0 includes several compelling features and usability enhancements. After months of development and numerous beta releases, Pidgin 2.0 is finally ready. Pidgin 2.0, the latest version of the popular open-source instant messaging client formerly known as Gaim, is now available for download.
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