

It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features. Gaim supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, typing notification, and MSN window closing notification. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.

Gaim users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber (for example, Google Talk), Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks. Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging (IM) client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows.
