Instant messaging on Ubuntu

With the Empathy application, you can chat with people online and with friends and colleagues who use Google Talk, AIM, Windows Live and many other chat programs. With a microphone or a webcam you can also have audio or video calls.

Empathy is not installed by default in Ubuntu, but you can install it from the Ubuntu package archive. For help with using Empathy, read the Empathy manual.

You can choose the displayed language by adding a language suffix to the web address so it ends with e.g. .html.en or .html.de.
If the web address has no language suffix, the preferred language specified in your web browser's settings is used. For your convenience:
[ Change to English Language | Change to Browser's Preferred Language ]

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Instant messaging on Ubuntu

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