New Emesene 2 messenger, now multi-protocol and seeking testers.

Emesene is a great open source, multi-platform (linux, windows, osX) messenger that was created for Msn / hotmail, but now, with yjr new version2 will be able to support GTalk, Facebook, etc. through their nice extensions system (awesome! :))

And for this to happen is looking for testers and contributors!

For me is one of the best, even in windows. It's super light weight, fast, nice, more secure and is harder for it to get infected by those pesky viruses, like on the normal client.

Now that it will be multi-protocol, it will be that much awesome!

the announcement is in their front page:

http://www.emesene.org/

emesene 2 needs YOU!

The emesene team is trying to bring the awesomeness to a new level but we're short on manpower so we need your help to deliver a new version of your favourite im-application!

Want to help? Here's a couple of things we currently need:

• Developers, developers, developers!

• Testers

• Packagers! (GNU/Linux, Windows, OSX)

If you have any question, get in touch with forums, mailing lists or GitHub issues! (click the BETA button on top-right of this page)

2 great looking distros released: linuxmint 10 and pinguy OS

The trend for great looks in linux has heated up, with the release of 2 awesome looking distros: linuxmint 10 and pinguy OS

Both are Ubuntu based, but are very very polished and

Linuxmint 10:
This distro has always been 1 step ahead of ubuntu in usability / ease of use, features and looks.
but this time it has really outdone itself in the looks department after ubuntu got a tad ahead of it 6 months ago.




update:
another awesome final review here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtdWCF_qeEY

grab it here:
http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1581

Pinguy OS:
Simply awesome, it comes with everything eye-candy.
IMHO it should had been called EYECANDY OS!
It comes packed with the best of ubuntu, nice tools from linuxmint and all the cool new stuff available in linux.

Pinguy OS links:

thanks to webupd8 for the news

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/11/tired-of-tweaking-ubuntu-try-pinguy-os.html

Nice interview at distrowatch

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20101101

If you want to show off, without having to spend hours configuring/tweaking stuff, get one of these now !

Just install and wow :)

Expect the battle to really heat up in 6 months with unity and gnome shell ready for mass deployment