LAN Chat/Talk

[Tony Pursell]

On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 22:55 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> 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.
> 

Is that what they call 'People Nearby'?

Tony