Web site: developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Finch Category: Network Subcategory: Instant Messengers Platform: Linux, Unix-like License: GNU GPL Interface: TUI Wikipedia: Finch (software) First release: unknown Finch – a terminal based universal chat client. It is built on top of ncurses and libpurple. It uses a custom user interface toolkit named libgnt to make working with ncurses more like … Read more
Web site: www.epicsol.org Category: Network Subcategory: IRC clients Platform: Linux, OS X, BSD, Unix-like License: BSD Interface: TUI Wikipedia: First release: unknown Epic – a IRC client that has been under active development for 25+ years in 5 generations. It is stable and mature, and offers an excellent ircII interface for those of us who … Read more
Web site: thekonst.net/en/centericq (not active) Category: Network Subcategory: Instant Messengers Platform: Cross-platform License: GNU GPL Interface: TUI Wikipedia: Centericq First release: August 1, 1999 Centericq – an instant messaging client in console mode with windows and menus. It supports the following communications protocols: ICQ2000, Yahoo, IRC, AIM, MSN, Gadu-Gadu and Jabber/XMPP. Works on Unix, GNU/Linux … Read more
Web site: centerim.org (not active) Category: Network Subcategory: Instant Messengers Platform: Linux, BSD, Solaris, Unix-like License: GNU GPL Interface: TUI Wikipedia: First release: 2007 CenterIM – a text-mode IM client for Linux, BSD, Solaris and other Unices that uses libpurple as a communication backend. ICQ2000, Yahoo!, AIM TOC, IRC, MSN, Gadu-Gadu and Jabber protocols are … Read more
Web site: barnowl.mit.edu Category: Network Subcategory: Instant Messengers Platform: Linux License: GNU GPL Interface: TUI Wikipedia: First release: 2008 BarnOwl – a curses-based IM client forked from the ktools owl project. BarnOwl currently supports Zephyr, AIM, Jabber, IRC, and Twitter and aims to be easily extensible and customizable through a Perl plugin interface. This is … Read more