Open Source Python Chat Software for Linux

See https://pidgin.im/about/ for more information. Pidgin is an instant messaging program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. It runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems. Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, MXit, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr. It is written in C and makes heavy use of GLib and GTK+. Finch is a command line instant messaging program. It also lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat network simultaneously, and it is compatible with the same chat networks as Pidgin. It is written in C and makes heavy use of GLib and ncurses.

OpenSource mud client designed to work on both windows,linux and MAC OS X. Written in Gtk+ and C with SQLLite, Python, MSP, MXP, HTML, and ZMP support. Provides plugin support, automapper functionality, triggers, aliases and macros.

Eggdrop is the most advanced IRC robot available. It has been under development since December 1993, and unlike most other bots, it is still regularly updated.

A fork of pidgin which aims to provide minor features that have not been addressed by the pidgin development team (including manual textbox resizing). See funpidgin.sf.net for details.

Luz is a GPL IRC Services. It's purpose is to offer a quality free software product, instead of the closed source available ones. It's designed mainly -but not limited to- for ircu based ircd's.

The Open Descent Foundation (ODF) is a community for developers, who want to help to create open source programs, tools, etc. for the famous games Descent1, -2 or -3. Everyone can join the ODF if he accepts the idea of writing open source programs.

Rockbot is a C irc robot initally based on comstud's Combot. It has gone a long way though. Its version 5 release was widely known in 1996-7 as one of the better (and eaisier to setup) bots. Version 6 goal is to compete with eggdrops, which the author di

`Talk-To-Me` or `TTM` is the next-gen messenger with Catchy Look, Nice Alerts & Sounds, Funny Status messages and more !

An IRC client that uses Tcl for not only the scripting, but also the "glue" at the C level for how all the parts of the application fit together.

Valuhack is a collaborative effort of a variety of newsgroups to port a simple program to as many languages as possible, while maintaining the true spirit of hacking.

Verlihub is a NMDC hub server that runs on all operating systems. It is written in C++ and has many rich plugins including Lua, Python and Perl.

Eggdrop is the most advanced IRC robot available. It has been under development since December 1993, and unlike most other bots, it is still regularly updated.