Posts tagged with: pidgin

I've just managed to successfully compile and install the microblog-purple Pidgin plugin on OpenSolaris (so I can use Twitter and Identi.ca from Pidgin). Sadly, the installation wasn't the prettiest of things, but the important part is the new protocol library files compiled successfully and work a treat. For the curious, it was a simple matter of following the instructions: Continue reading ►

Wooohooo!! purple-remote (used for controlling Pidgin from the command line) is now in Nevada and works. For some reason purple-remote wasn't included when Pidgin replaced GAIM on Solaris. I'm not sure which build it was introduced in, but it's definitely there in build 93. CR 6578100 still needs to be updated to reflect this though and it still needs to be patched in Solaris 10. Now I can update my utaction scripts to change my IM status whenever I pull my Java card from the Sunray DTU, like I used to do when I used GAIM.

I was going to provide details for compiling GAIM 2 / Pidgin on Solaris 10, as I did for GAIM 1.3.0 - 1.5 in my article entitled "HOWTO: Compile GAIM on Solaris 10", but this no longer necessary as GAIM is upgraded to Pidgin on Solaris 10 when patch 119548-11 (SPARC) or 119549-11 (x86) is applied.

Links of interest for 9 April 2007 - 13 April 2007: Google Summer of Code - Accepted student applications for Google Summer of Code have been announced! They've accepted over 900 student applicants from a pool of nearly 6,200 applications. Sun Acquires Java-based Mobile Phone OS - Oooh, maybe Sun will be jumping on the iPhone clone bandwagon. I doubt it though. I do think we could be seeing some really cool mobile phones and apps coming though. ZFS on FUSE/Linux - OpenSolaris, Solaris, FreeBSD and soon Mac OS X and now even Linux is looking ZFS. If this a... Continue reading ►