Pidgin 2.4.2

Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr. Pidgin can be extended using plugins. Continue reading

KDE4 based Linux distros

I’ve been playing around with KDE4 flavoured Linux distributions for a couple of weeks now: I’ve tried various betas and release candidates of Kubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE. And I must admit, I like openSUSE the most. Downloaded the live cd, and installed from there on without a hitch. Installation was very easy and straightforward. The only thing I did afterwards was installing Pidgin as instant messaging program, and the VLC media player. openSUSE is much more vivid and responsive on the same sytem than Kubuntu and Fedora.

On a side note: this was the first time I installed a 64 bit operating system, and I’ve had zero problems so far. Flash was easily installed from the non-oss repository and runs smoothly.

>> openSUSE website
>> Download openSUSE 11 beta 3