Open Source Linux Chat Software

[IMPORTANT] Retroshare is now distributed on Github. Please go to http://retroshare.net to find the latest releases and sources. RetroShare is a cross-platform, secured and decentralized communication system. It lets you to securely chat, share photos, videos, and more with family and friends, using OpenPGP to authenticate peers and OpenSSL to encrypt all communication.

a-renet is a distributed chat and multiplayer games network for UNIX. Supported games are client-server, TCP based games.

WASTE is a mesh-based workgroup tool that allows for encrypted, private communication between distant parties on the internet, independant of local network organization.

Purple bot which is an auto message robot with using predefined keywords to reply to buddies who are in pidgin's contact list.

Gameranger Client connects to the macintosh online gaming service, Gameranger. Allows you to chat with other users and find games.

A small, modular IRC bot written in C. On startup, reads an XML configuration file. Uses dynamic modules to implement actual functionality (friends lists, auto-opping, etc).

QChat is a simple crossplatform LAN chat. It is written using Qt4 so you can compile it on any platform supported by Qt. NOTE: you need Qt 4.3 to compile and run it.

iHailStorm Bulletin Board (aka Inca Forums) is a very fast, powerful, and a very user friendly message board written in php. Designed from the ground up to have powerful community support, iHS supports groups, usergroups, RPG stats, and much, much more.

A cross-platform Java alternative Google Talk.

Apolo is a set of irc services using the P10 protocol of the ircu-hispano daemon.

DSHub is a hubsoft for ADC Network. It uses the ADC(Direct Connect next generation) protocol. Platform independent, with a lot of features, secure, innovative, interactive, graphic interfaced hub soft. Visit http://www.death-squad.ro/dshub for more info.

A Mod of DC++ Client Based on FreeDC++ for Linux with ADLSearch , Ignore Users, Lua scripts supports,Media Spam and many more ...;) Main develop move to https://launchpad.net/bmdc++ and mirroring here in svn Attention BMDC++ has been designed to share a non-copyrighted material only! Program developer isn't responsible for activities which the users use this software to.

A Java implementation of the C6 protocol. It could easily be integrated in others multi-protocol instant messengers.

Eicq is an ICQ client that is written Emacs Lisp. Currently it isn't working, we are in the process of implementing version 8 of the ICQ protocol. Eicq requires XEmacs 21.4 or newer.

Jiaho is a free and open source XMPP/Jabber chat client. It's a web-based application 100% AJAX, built with GoogleWebToolkit and Smack Library.

Kashyyyk is full featured, open source, cross platform IRC client. It was originally written to replace HexChat on OS X. At the time, HexChat (a fork of XChat) had only had a single release on OS X, which was still in alpha. Kashyyyk is extremely small, the binaries and related libraries totaling around half a megabyte. Kashyyyk also has very few external dependencies, the official binaries statically linking all supporting libraries. Kashyyyk is natively available for OS X, Windows, and FreeBSD. Additionally, it can be compiled for Cygwin/X. When possible, Kashyyyk takes advantage of native OS capabilites, such as the OS X notification center. Kashyyyk uses the libfjirc library originally written for the Whittler IRC bot and the libfjnet wrapper written for TurboSphere. It has an FLTK-based GUI. Kashyyyk is intended to be cross platform and easily compiled. It is known to compile using Clang, GCC, Cygwin, Sun Studio, and MSVC 2013.

IRC game community robot. Delevoped for WIN32/linux in C/C++. This IRC robot interfaces with an MYSQL databas for data storing and webpage interface. Project IRC homechannel is #ninjabot @ quakenet

Overdose is a simple Yahoo! Chat client written in C, and using the curses library for text I/O. It is multithreaded using pthreads, and works on Linux/BSD/Unix and Windows.

Pynfo is an IRC bot written in Python and the Twisted framework. Among its features are network bridging/relaying, basic "infobot" capabilities, googling, 3 access tiers, and a shorter-link function. Pynfo is easily extensible and fully disk-persisten

We aim to create a set of webpages and applications that anyone can freely use to run their own Q&A site like http://ask-it-here.com or http://brain-fuse.com using only PHP and a MySQL database server. It will idealy run on Linux servers, Windows/IIS supp

IRC bot written in Perl that can message a log of what happened while they were gone to people who left and returned shortly afterwards. It should be useful to people with unstable computers, or users of operating systems that need to reboot often.

Client for Game Masters (of a RPG) to control a Game session using Y! Messenger Protocol. This allows GM to talk to the whole group, a sub-group (or individual), etc. and helps her to have a centralized GUI, while players can connect normally to Y! Msgr.

ScriptBot is a scriptable IRC bot. Based on PircBot and BSF, it allows to fully customize the bot's behaviour by editing script files in the scripting language of your choice.

Yet another IM with enchanced security mechanisms.

Web Jabber is Web Based Jabber Client software. Supports Roster, Chat, Message, MUC( Groupchat ), Discovery and File Transfer. All are in one window, no popup except outside link/resource. Simple, easy and functional are law. In Java with Servlet.