{"id":1562,"date":"2008-02-27T20:13:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T20:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/27\/linux-and-instant-messaging\/"},"modified":"2008-02-27T20:13:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T20:13:41","slug":"linux-and-instant-messaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/27\/linux-and-instant-messaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux and Instant Messaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t do much instant messaging, although I have found it useful for communicating with colleagues overseas for free.  But, in the ongoing quest for the answer to the question &#8220;Right, but can I do that in Linux?&#8221; I offer the following link on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux.com\/feature\/127506\">Three alternative Linux instant messaging applications.<\/a>Do I need to point out that &#8220;instant messaging&#8221; (communication across a network between different computers was invented on, by, and for Unix type machines.  So of course, IM would be a natural with Linux.  Not only that, but if you are sitting at your Mac communicating with someone half way around the world sitting at their PC, there are numerous Unix\/Linux machines linking you up and doing the real work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t do much instant messaging, although I have found it useful for communicating with colleagues overseas for free. But, in the ongoing quest for the answer to the question &#8220;Right, but can I do that in Linux?&#8221; I offer the following link on Three alternative Linux instant messaging applications.Do I need to point out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/27\/linux-and-instant-messaging\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Linux and Instant Messaging<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[67,130],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-pc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}