Gaim, er, Pidgin, finally hits 2.0
It's the release that Gaim users have been waiting for since December 2005. After seven beta releases, several interface revamps, and a name change, Pidgin 2.0 is finally available in the wild. It's an improvement over the Gaim 1.5 series, but it's disappointing that after all that time, voice support for instant messaging networks that support that feature is still absent.
Pidgin 2.0 is available as binaries for Fedora Core and Windows, and source code. The Pidgin Web site explains how the Pidgin developers decide which platforms get packages and which do not.
I decided to install Pidgin on Ubuntu 7.04 ("Feisty Fawn"), so I grabbed the source tarball, made sure I had all the dependencies I'd need by running sudo apt-get build-dep gaim, and ran the usual ./configure ; make ; make install command. Pidgin compiled without any problems.
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