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The version of Pidgin that is in the Lenny repositories has some problems. It’s an older version and does not work with Yahoo messenger, usually you can’t get the proper certifcate from Yahoo in Pidgin. I attempted to install it myself using the version of Pidgin for Sid by downloading the files from Debian. I [...]

pidgin-facebookchat is a plugin for Pidgin and other libpurple chat clients. It allows you to use Facebook’s chat feature within Pidgin. I personally don’t care for Facebook but have many friends that use it as their only means of chat. That means if I want to talk to them I must either go on Facebook [...]

This is an older article that was lost when we lost many of our articles due to a bad backup and some server problems. After noticing a decent amount of requests for it each day I decided to contact Hunter and get an other copy.
-Andrew

As a long time Debian fan, when I became a [...]

From http://debian.org/News/2009/20090627
June 27th, 2009
The Debian project is pleased to announce the second update of its stable distribution Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (codename “lenny”). This update mainly adds corrections for security problems to the stable release, along with a few adjustment to serious problems.
Please note that this update does not constitute a new version of Debian GNU/Linux [...]