Free irc chat software for linux

ICMP-Chat is a simple console-based chat that uses ICMP packets for communication. All the data is encrypted with Rijndael-256 algorithm.
Installation:
Type: make && make install
For solaris type: make solaris && make install
Usage:
Usage: icmpchat [OPTIONS] < host > < nick >
< host > = Host to chat with
< nick > = Your nickname
OPTIONS:
-t < type > = specify icmp type (default ECHO_REPLY)
Example: icmpchat 192.168.1.2 foo
ICMP codes:
[0] Echo Reply
[5] Redirect
[8] Echo Request
[9] Router advertisement
[10] Router solicitation
[13] Timestamp request
[14] Timestamp reply
[15] Information request
[16] Information reply
[17] Adressmask request
[18] Adressmask reply
Enhancements:
- Rewrote from scratch
- Implemented optimized rijndael algorithm
- Implemented sha256 for password hashing
- Implemented ncurses frontend (again)
- Fixed getuid problem so that setting suid flag works now (thanks John)

Claros Chat is finally ready. It is a web based (fully Ajax) instant messaging client which is capable of talking with the Jabber protocol. Claros Chat is well tested with Google Talk and it supports all major browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Mozilla.
The project has a minimalistic and an elegant user interface which looks much like a desktop application. Anyone interested in the application can test drive it at http://www.claros.org/chat.
Main features:
- Works with any Jabber server, including Google Talk.
- No setup needed on the client machine, works 100% within the browser, no plugins required.
- It is a 100% Ajax application, with a clean and nice user interface.
- Supports all major browsers.
- It can display user avatars including your own.
- Supports many of the emotions with MSN like smileys.
- All features such as changing status, changing status text, loading buddy list, adding/removing new buddy are all implemented.
- Can chat with as many users as you like.
- Users can set auto away at the preferences screen.
- Much words are useless, youve got to see it yourself, "it is one of the best looking and usefull open source instant messaging applications(or simply the best) in the world". See and believe for yourself. Just try the demo to see.(Login with your own Google username/password)
- You can start your own corporate chat network. Download a Jabber server from http://www.jabber.org and use Claros Chat to chat with your collegues.
- You can connect and chat with MSN, AOL, ICQ, Yahoo chat networks providing that you have your own Jabber server with a suitable gateway installed.
- It is open source and completely free software.

IRC-Chess project is a 2-player chess game for IRC which turns a computer into an IRC chess bot.

It consists of a Java chess server, with frontend scripts to convert an IRC client into a chess bot. Players then communicate with the bot using standard IRC commands, and dont require any special software to play.

Frontend scripts are available for IRSSI and X-Chat.

The client is merely responsible for interpreting this data and displaying it. In this way, porting the system to a variety of IRC clients is very simple, since
the client script will be short, and effectively contain no code specific to the game being played.

In other words, the Java part is smart. The script is dumb and is just there to make things look pretty.

This idea works. Currently, client scripts have been designed for RSSI and XChat. Since both these programs use Perl for scripting, the scripts are practically identical, with a few client specific modifications.

Porting this script to other IRC clients shouldnt be too much of a hassle, since its just the frontend thats ported, not the chess game itself. Anyone wanting to create frontend scripts for other IRC clients, please feel free to do so.

The PROTOCOL file describes exactly what needs to be done.

sirc is an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client for Unix programmed and programmable in perl,
by Roger Espel Llima (aka orabidoo). sirc is much smaller than most clients, and yet has most of their features.
Its divided in two parts, a dumb-mode (meaning, no full screen interface) client, dsirc, that can be used stand-alone, programmed in perl, and a separate split-screen front end in C, called ssfe.
The main point of running this client is that you can get a reasonable ircII-like interface on an account with a properly installed perl interpreter, with the perl client taking about 60k (and its usable on its own if you dont have access to a C compiler) and with the interface, once compiled, taking just another 30 or 40k. The two together, while lacking the huge complexity of ircII, make a very usable client. Youll find that you can do many and complicated things with sirc.
Main features:
- ircII-like user interface with command-line editing and history, and with enhancements like built-in "tabkey" handling, arrow keys, message redirection, and highlighting of private messages.
- All the usual IRC features, including /notify, /ignore, a hold mode, /server, /help, /set ...
- A number of functions which are usually defined as aliases are builtin in sirc, like /o to give ops or /w to do a /whois.
- Support for connections through SOCKS proxies, including initiating DCC connections.
- Compatible with all nets, including Undernets, extensions like /map.
- Full DCC (Direct Client-to-client Connections) support, to chat without going through the servers (DCC CHAT), and transmit files (DCC SEND and GET). DCC SEND is now 3x faster, and you can rename DCC CHATs.
- Substitution aliases in the vein of /alias b msg BubbleBot
- Possibility to make scripts for sirc, in perl, adding commands and their help, using hooks, userhost queries and timers, and adding new /set variables.
- Example script included, which adds message logging, userhost-on-notify, delayed auto-ops, and a lot of time-saving aliases.
- Possibility to make bots with sirc, and small included example.
- The whole distribution takes just 170k, including the docs. Once installed it takes about 110k of disk space.
- All the full-screen handling and command-line editing is done by a front-end in C which can be used with other programs than sirc, so you can (for example) read your mail with an IRC-like interface
- Compatible with perl versions 4 and 5.
- Quick and easy installation:
- gunzip sirc-2.211.tar.gz ; tar -xvf sirc-2.211.tar ; cd sirc-2.211 ; ./install
Enhancements:
- stripped anything after ^G from channel names, to be compatible with IRCnet.
- a proper fix will come with the next version...

XChat is an IRC (chat) program for Windows and UNIX (Linux/BSD) operating systems. I.R.C. is Internet Relay Chat, see http://irchelp.org for more information about IRC in general.
XChat runs on most BSD and POSIX compliant operating systems.
Main features:
- Full featured IRC client
- Fully customizable
- Tabbed window interface
- Small resource footprint
- 41 language translations
- encrypted connections using OpenSSL 0.9.8d
- native IPv6 support
- Perl, Python, Ruby and Tcl language interface plugins for scripting

CWirc project is a plugin for the X-Chat IRC client to transmit raw Morse code over the internet using IRC servers as reflectors. The transmitted Morse code can be received in near real-time by other X-Chat clients with the CWirc plugin.

CWirc tries to emulate a standard amateur radio rig: it sends and receives Morse over virtual channels, and it can listen to multiple senders transmitting on the same channel.

Morse code is keyed locally using a straight or iambic key connected to a serial port, or using the mouse buttons, and the sound is played through the sound card, or through an external sounder.

MOHA Chat is a chat solution which comes with a intuitive Web client and can run on most shared hosts. MOHA Chat consumes fewer resources on the server side and is fast on the client side.

The project uses AJAX to retrieve the chat messages and user status. The client polls the server at regular intervals. It currently supports only one-to-one chatting with the Web client. The Web client encrypts messages using a key unique to the client when sending a message to the server and vice versa.