Web site: irssi.org Category: Network Subcategory: IRC Clients Platform: BSD, Linux, OS X, Solaris, UNIX-like, Windows License: GPL Interface: CLI First release: January 1999 Irssi – a multiplatform, a text based IRC client written in the C programming language. Irssi is multi-protocol friendly for module authors and shipped-by-default Perl scripting with a wide range of … Read more
Web site: wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Empathy Category: Network Subcategory: Internet Messenger Platform: BSD, Linux, UNIX-like License: GPL Interface: GUI First release: May 19, 2007 ? Empathy – a messaging program which supports text, voice, video chat, and file transfers over many different protocols. You can tell it about your accounts on all those services and do all your … Read more
Web site: uftp-multicast.sourceforge.net Category: Network Subcategory: File Transfer Platform: BSD, Linux, OS X, Solaris, UNIX-like, Windows License: GPL (for non-commercial usage) Interface: CLI First release: July 6, 2001 UFTP – an encrypted multicast file transfer program, designed to securely, reliably, and efficiently transfer files to multiple receivers simultaneously. This is useful for distributing large files … Read more
Web site: mldonkey.sourceforge.net/Main_Page Category: Network Subcategory: Peer2Peer Clients Platform: Linux, MorphOS, OS X, UNIX-like, Windows License: GPL Interface: GUI First release: 2001 MLDonkey – a multi-platform multi-networks peer-to-peer client. Originally, it was the first open-source client to access the eDonkey network. The protocol was reverse-engeneered using an efficient protocol sniffer, Pandora. MLDonkey runs as back-end … Read more
Web site: www.gnu.org/software/wget/ Category: Network Subcategory: Download managers Platform: AmigaOS, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, MorphOS, OpenVMS, OS X, UNIX-like, Windows License: GPL Interface: CLI First release: January, 1996 Wget (previously: Getur) – a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS, FTP and FTPS the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive command line … Read more