Web site: pidgin.im Category: Network Subcategory: Instant Messenger Platform: Linux, OS X, UNIX-like, Windows License: GPL Interface: GUI First release: December 31, 1998 Pidgin (formerly named Gaim) – a chat program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on MSN, talking … Read more
Web site: lynx.invisible-island.net Category: Network Subcategory: Web browsers Platform: BSD, DOS, Linux, OS/2, OpenVMS, UNIX-like, Windows License: GPL Interface: CLI First release: 1992 Lynx – a fully-featured World Wide Web (WWW) client for users running cursor-addressable, character-cell display devices (e.g., vt100 terminals, vt100 emulators running on PCs or Macs, or any other character-cell display). Lynx … Read more
Web site: xchat.org Category: Network Subcategory: IRC Clients Platform: BSD, Linux, OS X, UNIX-like, Windows License: Proprietary (for Windows), GPL (for others) Interface: GUI, CLI First release: June 29, 1999 XChat – an IRC chat program for both Linux and Windows. It allows you to join multiple IRC channels (chat rooms) at the same time, … Read more
Web site: conkeror.org Category: Network Subcategory: Web browsers Platform: Linux, OS X, UNIX-like, Windows License: GPL, LGPL, MPL Interface: GUI First release: Conkeror – a keyboard-oriented, highly-customizable, highly-extensible web browser based on Mozilla XULRunner, written mainly in JavaScript, and inspired by exceptional software such as Emacs and vi. Conkeror features a sophisticated keyboard system, allowing … Read more
Web site: hexchat.github.io Category: Network Subcategory: IRC Clients Platform: Linux, OS X, UNIX-like, Windows License: GPL Interface: GUI First release: July 6, 2012 HexChat – an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client based on XChat, but unlike XChat it’s completely free for both Windows and Unix-like systems. HexChat was originally called XChat-WDK which in turn was … Read more