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Hello! I was thinking in making an instant messaging server. Something for the kids in my son classroom talking to each other. I don't want something hard to configure. I was thinking in doing something like Salix server and Jabber. Does anyone have a better idea? I would like to ear from you guys.
Thanks.

Hi,
I'm running a prosody jabber server (http://prosody.im/) at home. It's quite ok to set up and lightweight. If you prefer something with a nice admin web interface I'd suggest openfire (http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/). Really simple to use but consumes some MB of RAM because it's written in Java. Still no problem for home usage.

Feel free to ask for more help

PS: Our official Salix chat room is hosted on guth's server. No idea which jabber server he is running.

Hi and thanks for the reply! I checkout prosody and it looks simple, as I am going to install it in a mini-itx board. When I have it up and running I will tell you the result. You say that you have it running at home, would you tell me a bit more about your setup and why did you had the need to have a jabber server?

Prosody is running on my 24/7 desktop/server PC along with some other services. I've set up a jabber server some years ago for several reasons:
* I was interested in jabber
* I wanted to have less communication over ICQ
* that time public servers often were not really reliable (nowadays this is not the case anymore)
* I wanted to have fully private and encrypted IM with an own server (Jabber supports encryption, but the server owner always could view the content)

I'm using a dyndns.org address for my server.

Just an update: I install prosody. The install went well, then I had a problem. I had to create a user/group named prosody. Then I was able to start the server. OH yes, I wasn't able to start the server because I hadn't this user/group. Now I am trying to create the users which I'm having some trouble. I'll keep you posted.

Have a look at /usr/share/doc/prosody-0.8.0rc2/README.Slackware. Please replace the version with the one on your computer.