LAN Chat/Talk

[Alan Pope]

On 23 September 2010 22:50, Ken Adams <adams.ken.j at googlemail.com> wrote:
> What suggestions do you all have for a Gnome based Talk/Chat program
> that looks and feels like empathy etc. that runs just on a LAN and only
> the users on that lan can log into it.??
>

How about.. Empathy :D

Empathy (and other chat clients like Pidgin and iChat) have the
ability to connect using 'bonjour' / 'zeroconf' / 'avahi' system. I
think in Empathy it's called 'Salut'. It's direct chat over the LAN,
no external servers are required.

I used it once on a train to say 'hello' to someone else on the train
who was using my personal 3g access point :) I was on Ubuntu with
Pidgin, she was on a Mac with iChat. Standards work sometimes.

Cheers,
Al.