AMSN

aMSN (Alvaro' S Messenger, or Another MSN messenger clone) is a customer of Instant messaging, clone free of Windows Live Messenger, using the protocol of Microsoft (MSNP).

Project developed to be used under Linux, aMSN is related to several others OS, in particular Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and FreeBSD. It is about a modified and multilingual version of Compu' S Messenger (CCMSN). It is coded in Tcl/Tk.

aMSN amongst other things makes it possible the user to be connected with the statute “Off line”, therefore invisible of the other users. This option, one of the most courted assets aMSN, was taken again by MSN Messenger starting from version 7. It in addition lays out many skins and plugins to approach MSN Messenger: The plugin " Nudge" (installed with aMSN) the management of Wizz brings.

From version 0.95, the use of the Webcam (without the sound) and the use of emoticon S personalized compatible with MSN Messenger 7 are possible.

History

September 19th, 2001, CCMSN is launched on Freshmeat.net by Dave Musfed. This version was the initial version of a simple clone of MSN Messenger written in TCL/TK. On this level, it did not support the emoticons in the window of discussion, but it provided a basic support for the discussions and seemed rather similar to MSN Messenger for Windows. After some time, it seems that the development of CCMSN was stopped, although there was a certain number of users. This is why a certain number of these users created their own improvement of CCMSN.

on April 23rd, 2002, Didimo E. Grimaldo T. announced that it carried out its own changes and that it was going to create a package RPM.

on May 15th, 2002, Alvaro Iradier announced that it was going to also make its own changes which it was going to make downloadable via its own connection.

on May 22nd, 2002, Grimaldo T. joined Alvaro Iradier for the development of a version modified of CCMSN, called aMSN. This modified version was put on line on the sourceforge.net site, devoting the birth of the aMSN project.

Between on May 22nd, 2002 and on July 5th, 2002, 10 versions of aMSN left (from 0.44 to 0.61). The statistics of remote loading increased by 878 to 15.783 from May to July.

In July 2002, Didimo E. Grimaldo T. ceased working on aMSN because of a lack of time.

on August 22nd, 2002, Philippe G. Khalaf joined the development team of aMSN whereas the project became extensive, as well of number of user as of many functionalities.

on May 23rd, 2003, Youness Alaoui joined the development team of aMSN. With 3 very active members, it not spending days without aMSN received changes and improvements.

Between May 2003 and October 2003, the team delivered three major versions of aMSN (0.80 to 0.83). These 3 versions led to approximately 450.000 remote loadings in almost 8 months.

During December, the interest carried to the aMSN project had considerable a " boom" , and number of developers, testers, creators of packages, draftsmen Web and artists united the team of aMSN which counted 19 members suddenly.

on March 11th, 2004, aMSN reached the bar of the million remote loadings.

on December 25th, 2005, release of version 0.95 after more than one year without new update.

on July 11th, 2006, the version 0.96 RC1 left with the support the new protocol (MSNP12) as well as other improvements on appearance as well as corrections bugs.

on November 5th, 2006, change of address of the project: http://www.amsn-project.net/

on November 24th, 2006, release of the version 0.96.

on May 22nd, 2007, release of the version 0.97 RC1 which makes many improvements and functionalities.

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