Free irc chat room list software for linux

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.

JWChat is a full featured, web-based Jabber client. It uses only JavaScript and HTML on the client-side. It supports basic jabber instant messaging, roster management and groupchats based on the MUC protocol.
JWChat is an advanced instant messenger (IM) just like AIM, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger or ICQ. This means you can manage your contacts, communicate with other users in 1:1 chat sessions or join a groupchat room for collaborative communication. Unlike other IMs you can use this with your web browser without having to install any additional software at all. For a list of supported browsers see the features page.
All of your settings, bookmarks and your contact list are stored on the server side. This means that you have access to your personalized client from almost any computer as long as its got access to the internet.
JWChat and its underlying software are all Open Source. This gives you the flexibility you need in your everyday business.
JWChat brings you the perfect solution for your corporate communication. Being a web application it gives you all advantages of centralized software distribution. Dont hassle with software installs and updates on the client side!
As a web developer its easy for you to integrate it with your existing web projects. Add advanced instant messaging and groupchat functionality to your website now!
Main features:
Jabber/XMPP
- Create accounts
- Roster management: Add, delete contacts, edit contacts groups etc.
- Jabber presence types with support for away messages
- Custom presence for each roster item
- Instant Messages and 1:1 Chats
- Support for registering and searching JUD (Jabber User Directory)
- Full support for MUC (Multi-User Chats) as described in JEP-0045
- Support for transport/gateways to other IM services like ICQ, AIM, MSN, etc.
- Server side storage of preferences and bookmarks (chat rooms)
- Message-History (optional - needs support from the server side)
- many more
GUI
- Multiple language support (through apaches mod_negotiation)
- Online-Help
- System sounds
- Smileys in messages and chats (themes customizable)
- Customizable poll interval (if polling backend present)

IoChatto is a chat client which you can use in the JXTA platform.

Its interface is similar to many IRC chat clients, but you can have presence information for every channel, and its design is fully decentralized.

MultiChat is a chat client with the major focus on one-to-many communications (chat rooms and others).
MultiChat application does not aim to be a multi-protocol client. Instead, it seeks to provide multiple chat and collaboration resources based on integrated development with a single protocol and server software.
Installation:
# Run the configure script
./configure
# Compile
make
# Install
make install
# Run
multichat
Enhancements:
- This version fixes some bugs, sets the application icon on the alt-tab screen and changes the topic text justification.

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.

WBB IRC Postbot is a hack for the Woltlab Burning Board (WBB) which posts new threads, posts and registrations automatically into IRC (Internet Relay Chat). Furthermore, users can search the board, show the latest threads/posts and look up a user’s last seen date via IRC.

Available commands

!boardsearch < title > – Shows threads and posts whose title contains the searched words.
!boardseen < username > – Shows when the user was seen the last time in board and when he posted the last time.
!latest – Shows the latest threads/posts (amount is configurable).
!topposter – Shows users with the most posts.
!foren (only for configured admins) – Shows the boards whose threads/posts will be posted into IRC (mainly for debugging purposes).
!lastusers (only for configured admins) – Shows the last registrations.

Night Light IRC Proxy is a multi-user IRC (Internet Relay Chat) proxy written in C.
Night Light IRC Proxy (ircproxy) is a multi-user IRC (Internet Relay Chat) proxy written in C for UNIX compatible systems.

If you do not know what IRC is, then IRC proxy probably isnt for you.

This way you are protected behind the machine running the IRC proxy, connecting through a proxy will hide your machines IP-address from other users on IRC.A IRC proxy is a program which works like a server, you connect to it with your IRC client and it connects you to the chosen server.

More simply explained, the IRC proxy will forward data sent by the IRC server to one or more IRC clients connected to the ircproxy, and forward data sent by the IRC clients to the IRC server.

The IRC proxy can also keep your connection to IRC alive even when you disconnect from the IRC proxy.

This IRC proxy is very flexible, it allows to configure multiple ports for listening, access by hostname or IP-address, multiple users and multiple connections and a optional ident server.

This is all done through the following configuration files:

A listen configuration file (listen.conf) where you specify what hosts and ports users can connect to.
A access configuration file (access.conf), where you specify which IP-addresses or hostnames users can connect to the ircproxy from.
A optional user configuration file (user.conf) (with optional encrypted passwords), where you specify usernames/password allowed that IRC clients must send to get access.
A connection configuration file (conn.conf) where the actual IRC connections to IRC servers is specified, each connection is owned by a specific user defined in user.conf.

The ircproxy can compile and run successfully on most UNIX systems. It has been successfully compiled and installed on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux, Solaris, OSF1, HP-UX, AIX and Windows (Cygwin).

What exactly can ircproxy do?



Share your internet connection.

If you dont have direct access to the internet but another machine (router or server) on the network has internet access. You can share the internet connection using a this ircproxy for IRC access. Even your already using NAT, SOCKS or a forwarding proxy, ircproxy is probably preffered because it will allow you to have ident on IRC, and different ident can be replied for different users.


Get your own hostname from a shell ISP or hide your host behind a server.

If your internet service provider does not allow you to have a static IP with your own hostname, or you simply want to hide your real host. You can buy shell access from a ISP and eventually buy your own IP-address from the ISP to use with ircproxy.


Keep your IRC connection alive even when you disconnect with your IRC client.

If you have a dial up connection but want your client connected to IRC 24/7, you can install ircproxy on a server. This ircproxy will keep the IRC connection alive after you disconnect from the ircproxy with your IRC client.


Restrict data sent to the IRC server to prevent flooding the IRC server.

Solve problems getting disconnected with "Excess Flood", possible cause for this is that someone is flooding you with CTCPs or similar. This ircproxy will restrict you from sending data faster to the IRC server then the IRC server will allow. It will simply queue the data you send and keep it until the IRC server is ready to take more data without disconnecting you. However the queue is also restricted, there is a max sendQ, if it is reached your IRC client will be disconnected but the connection to the IRC server still stay alive.


One connection to IRC from more then one machine at the same time.

With ircproxy you can be connected to IRC from two or more machines at the same time without more then one connection to the IRC server. This ircproxy will allow you to resume a IRC server connection from more then one machine at the same time.

When you connect to the ircproxy with your IRC client, your host is first checked against the access configuration to see whether it can allow access from your host.

If access is denied by the access configuration rules, your IRC client will be disconnected with a message. Otherwise, your IRC client must send a "PASS", "USER" and "NICK" command to the ircproxy, once that is received, the username sent in "USER" and the password sent in "PASS" will be matched against usernames/password on the system (or user.conf), if it matches, the IRC client will be grated access.

Once your IRC client is connected to the ircproxy, you may select which connection to resume, as a user can have several IRC server connections defined in the connection configuration file. However users can only connect to the IRC servers defined in the connection configuration file, which give you more control. Connections stay alive independent of users, which mean that if a user disconnect from the proxy, the connection will still stay alive.

Several users can connect to the proxy with same username and resume the same IRC server connection. This feature is useful if you want to connect to IRC both from home and work at the same time without cloning.

A server administrator for a UNIX machine can install the ircproxy with the root option so that usernames and passwords are read from the system, instead of using a seperate configuration file for usernames and passwords. This way all users that have access to the system automatically have access to ircproxy.

With the root option and ident installed, the ircproxy can set correct ident for each connection. It can also save each users log files in their respective home directory.

The root option does not make the ircproxy run as root, it will immediately drop root privilege to the UID you set in make config and only switch back to do small operations such as setting correct ident for a connection.