Gabber is a free software and open-sourceGNOME client for an instant messaging network called Jabber. Development seems to have stopped as of June 2004, though there is no formal announcement. Free software, as defined by Richard Stallman and his Free Software Foundation, can be used, copied, studied, modified and redistributed. ... Open source denotes that the origins of a product are publicly accessible in part or in whole. ... GNOME (for GNU Network Object Model Environment) is a open source/free software computer desktop environment for Unix and Unix-like operating systems. ... An instant messenger is a computer application which allows instant text communication between two or more people through a network such as the Internet. ... Jabber is an open, XML-based protocol for instant messaging and presence. ...
The following is a list of instant messengers. ... The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of instant messengers. ...
External links
Gabber homepage (http://gabber.jabberstudio.org/)
Old Gabber homepage (http://gabber.sourceforge.net/)
Gabber is an offshoot of Jabber, an open-sourceinstant messaging system -- specifically designed for Linux-based operating systems that use the GNOME desktop environment.
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