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Adium is only available on Mac OS X.
Adium is written with very Mac specific code—mostly, but not entirely, Cocoa. Porting it to another platform would require rewriting the entire application.
Read below which alternatives we suggest for each operating system.
Several multi-protocol IM clients already exist for Windows. We recommended Pidgin for Windows; it is open-source and free and Adium uses Pidgin's core (libpurple) for most protocols. Other options include:
- Trillian (commercial; free 'lite' version available)
- Miranda (open source; free).
There are some skins available for Trillian and Miranda which modify them to look like Adium in some ways.
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Several multi-protocol IM clients already exist for Linux operating systems.
If you're using GTK+, we recommend Pidgin. Adium uses Pidgin's core (libpurple) for most protocols.
If you're using KDE, we recommend Kopete. Kopete even works with Adium message view styles.
But couldn't you use GNUStep?
We use Cocoa Bindings, Carbon, Quartz, Core Foundation, and Search Kit, among other APIs. These features are not available in GNUStep.
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There was a GNUStep implementation very long ago, but it fell out of date and was missing features.
Applications for all users mac. Look on MacUpdate to see if there are any clients that may work for you. Otherwise you may want to start looking at moving to OS X.
News
9 Mar 2016
Versions 4.1.0 and earlier of libotr in 64-bit builds contain an integer overflow security flaw. This flaw could potentially be exploited by a remote attacker to cause a heap buffer overflow and subsequently for arbitrary code to be executed on the user's machine.
CVE-2016-2851 has been assigned to this issue.
Please upgrade to libotr version 4.1.1 immediately.
Users of libotr packages in Linux and *BSD distributions should see updated packages shortly.
This security release includes the following updates:
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- Fix an integer overflow bug that can cause a heap buffer overflow (and from there remote code execution) on 64-bit platforms
- Fix possible free() of an uninitialized pointer
- Be stricter about parsing v3 fragments
- Add a testsuite ('make check' to run it), but only on Linux for now, since it uses Linux-specific features such as epoll
- Fix a memory leak when reading a malformed instance tag file
- Protocol documentation clarifications
This point release includes the following updates:
- Fix use-after-free issue during SMP
- Updated Spanish, German, Norwegian Bokmål translations
- New Danish translation
- The Windows binary has been linked with updated versions of libotr, libgcrypt, libgpg-error, and other supporting libraries