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Everything Else => Sharp Zaurus => Model Specific Forums => Distros, Development, and Model Specific Forums => Archived Forums => C1000/3x00 General discussions => Topic started by: gamecubez on March 05, 2005, 08:52:57 pm
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Hi i am about to order the C3000 from http://www.pulster.de/ (http://www.pulster.de/)
seems the cheapest price and with been a german site means no customs to U.K
Anyway i conduct lots of business via MSN messenger and was wondering or in fact hoping that you could get a version of MSN messnger running on this device?
Thanks in advance
P.S i am also completely new to linux but from reading this forum i get the impression i dont really need to know about Linux to use this device
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You shouldn't need to know too much about Linux, but assuming you're vaguely computer savvy and interested, you can learn easily enough (I knew nothing about Linux before I bought my 5500 - a few years back now - I like to think I've learned a thing or two on the way :-)
Regarding MSN, I've had it working without troubles using gaim (try a search for that). The only issue you may come across is that Microsoft seem to change their protocol (in an attempt to keep other clients out I expect), I'm not running gaim atm so I can't say whether it's working currently.
One thing to note - the version of gaim for the Z is based on an older version than that for a desktop Linux box - so some of the latest features shown on the gaim web site may be missing. That said, MSN worked fine. I was also in contact with someone at the tail end of last year who was interested in updating qpe-gaim, I'm not sure what's happenen about that.
Look here:
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/ (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/) (desktop version)
http://qpe-gaim.sourceforge.net/ (http://qpe-gaim.sourceforge.net/) (Zaurus version).
Si
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I ordered my C3000 through pulster. Very nice chap and very good price. Much recommended.