Free homebrew channel software for linux

Boost Channel is a C++ template framework for distributed message passing and event dispatching. Its major components (message IDs, routing algorithms...) are highly configurable as template parameters.
As a namespace shared by peer threads, channels support publish/subscribe scope control, message filtering, and translation.
Enhancements:
- Jamfile.v2 was added for building the channel library and examples (the current boost CVS build system was changed so Jamfile.v2 is required).
- However, there are issues with building samples using Jamfile.v2 with WindowsXP and VC++.
- Windows users should use the existing Jamfile (v1).
- This may involve replacing the boost/tools/build/v1 directory with the content from an older boost release or CVS checkout (such as 12/10/2006).

Channel is a generic/simple facility with the purpose of making event dispatching and message passing as straightforward to use as data structures:
Channel is a template library, with its major components configurable as template parameters:
template
<
class Id_Type,
class Id_Trait = IdTrait ,
class SynchPolicy = ACE_MT_SYNCH,
class AllocPolicy,
class Router = MapRouter
>
class Channel
By replacing Id_Type, Id_Trait and Router with various concrete classes, Channel can support table/linear message routing, hierarchical routing and associative routing (Linda style) at the demand of user. The same way, we can use integer, string, POD structs or any class as message ids (provided that proper operations are defined with Id_Trait)
Channel provides complete publish/subscribe interface for channel members (peer threads in message passing and objects in event dispatching) to pub/sub message/event ids/types and send/receive messages/events
Channels are process local entities which can be "connected" to allow transparent distributed communication between members in different channels (Connectors based on tcp socket and unix domain socket are provided as samples)
Namespace control:
The ids published/subscribed by channel members constitute channels namespace.
Channel provides publish/subscribe scope control; When ids are published/subscribed, peers can specify desired scope (LOCAL, REMOTE, GLOBAL)
When 2 channels are connected, their namespaces are automatically "merged", which is transparent to both channel members and programmers. Members can communicate with members in remote channels the same way as with local members (by pub/sub ids).
Namespace merge/integration is controlled by:
Id scope specification
filters and translators defined at channel connections
Channel communication are peer-2-peer; there are no central daemons required for message passing.
Channel support both asynchronous message passing and synchronous event dispatching models.
Channel is built on top of
ACE (Adaptive Communication Environment) to gain platform independence.
Enhancements:
- The framework was ported to Windows XP with VC8.
- Dispatching policy was added as a Channel template parameter to support various dispatching algorithms.
- Broadcast and simple RoundRobin dispatching policies were implemented for testing.
- Callback was changed to functor style so that normal functions and functors can be directly used as callbacks.

Amarok announce is a small perl script for Konversation which will display what you play in amarok.

Place the script in ~/.kde/share/apps/konversation/scripts, make sure its executeable, then add in Konversation an Alias "amarok /exec amarok.pl" then you can use it by typing /amarok in a channel.

Hmm-weblog 2.0 is a major rewrite of Hmm-weblog and has been in production at Stockholm University since February 2006.

Hmm-weblog projects goal is to create a system that would work for multiple users in one installation instance, but also with an instance per user. For more information about the software, please refer to the manual (PDF) contained within the source tree.

The preferred and only currently implemented client for Hmm-weblog 2.0 is a uPortal Channel (CBlog). Channel end-user documentation in Swedish is available in the Support.IT knowledge base.

The software is offered without any assistance from Stockholm University.

TopicEngine is an advanced topic management script for eggdrop bots. Its features are: fine-grained access permissions, multiple channels, shortcuts to commands, intelligent topic handling, learning, locking, and more.

Commands can be executed via public message (using !topic in a channel), query (/msg botnick topic #channel, or on the partyline (.topic #channel).

Wont change the topic if it would make it go over the maximum topic length for the network
Access can be limit by bot flags per channel or globally, and by IRC status (+o,+v). Users can be blocked if needed.

Supports prefixes and postfixes to ensure something is always at the start/end of the topic (e.g. channel homepage URL).

If a user changes the topic with /topic, will try to learn the new one so that future !topic commands work smoothly. If a topic is set without a pre- or postfix, the bot resets the topic with them.

Topic locking, so that it cannot be changed. If the topic is changed with /topic, the bot will change it back. TopicEngine uses the botnet to try to avoid a botfight with two locked topics.
he topic is reset after a netsplit to make sure all servers across the network have the topic.
Intelligent trimming of the topic to try to fit as much as possible into the available space.

Can learn a new topic if its set with /topic instead of through the bot. Automatically learns all the topics on active channels when joining them, and will update them to have pre- and postfixes if needed.

Methane IRC Daemon is an advanced ircd based on Bahamut 1.4.35.

It sports dynamic config, host masking, advanced user modes, channel admins, and half-operators.

The project also has SETHOST/SETIDENT/SETNAME as well as CHGHOST/CHGNAME/CHGIDENT.

ZeCetL is an IRC bot that lets all users in an IRC channel play Countdown ("les chiffres et les lettres" in French).
ZeCetL project also supports some other famous TV games like "motus" and "la cible". A Web interface shows the stats of every player and sums up all played games.
Enhancements:
- The bot can now handle different langages.
- French and basic English is packaged, but it is easy to add others.
- Support for MSN, Yahoo, Jabber, and more was added through the use of bitlbee.

Perl IRC Statistics Generator (pisg) is an IRC channel statics generator written in Perl, it creates statistics from different logfile formats.
It was originally written because IRCStats wasnt open source. So heres an open source/GPLed version to anyone interested. Its a funny thing for your IRC channel, and its highly customizeable.
Supported logfile formats:
- X-Chat
- mIRC
- mIRC6
- Eggdrops
- bxlog for BitchX
- irssi
- virc98
- dancer
- Trillian
- Grufti
- mbot
- winbot
- zcbot
- muh
- energymech
- ircII
- psybnc
- ircle
- infobot
- axur
- bobot++
- oer
- perlbot
- Vision
- pircbot
- KVIrc
- HydraIRC
- sirc
- moobot
- supybot
- blootbot
- dircproxy
Enhancements:
Bug fixes:
- Added missing > (SF #1550312).
- Fix typo in docs (SF #1550765).
Christoph:
- The manpage file released with 0.69 was empty, sorry. Thanks to Julien Danjou for spotting.
- Fix some typos in manpage and --help text.