Screenshots of CLI tools aren't very exciting; for more visual interest see the screenshots of Fugu and Yammer.
Here's me sending a message to myself with gsend, and using gsub to receive the message in the same terminal window:
% gsub
! 2001-07-05 23:40:49 gsub notice: refreshing "debug.restart@gale.org"
! 2001-07-05 23:40:49 gsub notice: requesting key "debug.restart@gale.org"
! 2001-07-05 23:40:49 gsub notice: refreshing "egnor@ofb.net"
! 2001-07-05 23:40:49 gsub notice: requesting key "egnor@ofb.net"
! 2001-07-05 23:40:49 gsub notice: connected to molly.ofb.net (216.39.153.233:11
512)
% gsend egnor
To: egnor@ofb.net
(End your message with EOF or a solitary dot.)
Hi there!
.
Message transmitted.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To: egnor@ofb.net
Hi there!
-- egnor@ofb.net (Dan Egnor) at 07-05 23:43:27 --
%
|
Here's a sample of some more interesting public traffic between a group of people:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To: pub.comp.multicast@ofb.net
People actually use IP multicast? Golly.
-- egnor@ofb.net (Dan Egnor) at 05-26 12:21:04 --
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To: pub.tv.tom-green@@ofb.net
OK. The Tom Green Cancer Special is pretty fucking funny. I think part of
this is because it's a little more subdued than his normal shtick.
-- clynne@ofb.net (Briar Rose) at 05-26 12:21:42 --
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To: pub.comp.unix@ofb.net
Depends on the system. Some are better than others about leaving root enough
room to operate.
-- egnor@ofb.net (Dan Egnor) at 05-26 12:21:37 --
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To: pub.comp.multicast@ofb.net
On a private net :) Multicast in general is unfortunately a bit of a lost
technology. It doesn't work very well in the
mututally-distrusting-and-disliking internet we have today.
-- dshaw@jabberwocky.com (David Shaw) at 05-26 12:24:02 --
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
To: pub.morning@ofb.net
There really is not room in the machine room. I hate the lack of logs too.
Blame everything on ***** *****.
-- wnoise@ugcs.caltech.edu (Aaron Denney) at 05-26 12:40:42 --
|
Screenshots of a server? Well, if you thought the client screenshots were boring...
% galed
% ps -ef | grep galed
egnor 18764 1 0 20:47 ? 00:00:00 galed
egnor 18767 15022 0 20:47 pts/6 00:00:00 grep galed
%
|
Now we come to the good stuff! Fugu is a graphical client for Unix and Microsoft Windows platforms written in Python/Tk by Tessa Lau. These screenshots should give you an idea of what it looks like; see the Fugu home page for more information.
Click on any of the images to see a full-size version.
Yammer is a web-based gale client designed for modern browsers. It was written by and is maintained by John Reese. It is GPL-ed software written in Python on the Webware servlet framework using Tessa Lau's PyGale library.
Click on the image to see a full-size version.
These clients do not work with the current gale server infrastructure, and are not actively maintained. If they look interesting to you, you may want to contact the authors with any questions about future work or taking over the code.
Praya is far more than a Gale client; it combines Gale with IRC, Yahoo! Pager, e-mail and more to create a complete messaging solution. It's written in Java by Wesley Tanaka.
Click on the image to see a full-size version.
XGM is a work in progress by Nathan Lutchansky to create a gtk-based interface to Gale that resembles the instant messaging interface many people are familiar with (including presence tracking). If you look closely, you'll see evidence of a gateway to AOL Instant Messenger that he's also been working on...
Click on the image to see a full-size version.