Free irc client software for linux

Ghoti is a GUI-based IRC Client for unix/linux, written in Perl, and distributed under the GPL. Ghoti IRC Client has an uncanny similarity to mIRC.
Main features:
- Multi-server support
- Fully customisable GUI
- DCC Resume support
- Support for mIRC colours
- Robust CTCP flood protection
- Built in XDCC/CDCC file offering
- On-event sounds (if you really must)

Oracle client is a simplistic Perl-based Oracle client that tries to mimic some of the functionality of PostgreSQL and MySQLs text-based SQL clients.

It is relatively simplistic, but much more useful than dbishell or sqlplus.

The project supports readline, history, desc, and various shorthand commands like d, , c, etc.

MusicBrainz::Client is a MusicBrainz Client API.

SYNOPSIS

use MusicBrainz::Client;
use MusicBrainz::Queries qw(:all);

my $mb = MusicBrainz::Client->new();
if(! $mb->query_with_args( MBQ_FindArtistByName, [ "Pink Floyd" ]) ) {
die("Query failed: ", $mb->get_query_error(), "n");
}
print "Found ", $mb->get_result_int(MBE_GetNumArtists), " artistsn";

This module provides access to the musicbrainz client API using a perl-ish OO interface.

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.

Ircproxy is a transparent IRC content filtering application. It may be used whenever there is a need for monitoring IRC connections.

irc-proxy may be used to deny specific connections or to examine suspicious IRC traffic.

irclogger is a simple "bot", a program connecting as a client on IRC servers to provide a web log of what is said. It is built to provide a simple and web-compliant service.
Irclogger was done to:
- Be used on intranets, where users can be trusted and will not try constantly to crack the system. Thus the bot do not need to provide the plethora of anti-hackers, channel defending measures
- Provide privacy, users can set passwords on the log files, change them, but cannot remove them
- Be another web tool, the bot obey just the minimal IRC commands to log or not a channel. All the rest is done via a web browser. Each logged phrase becomes a part of the web with its own URL.
I could not find a bot satisfying these criteria. All were huge monsters with bloated functionalities of dubious utility, many were disgusting amounts of ugly perl code.
I stumbled on a nice unfinished python bot "logger" by Sean B. Palmer and Dan Connolly, so I used it as a base for irclogger, and added html view of the logs.
irclogger consists of 2 parts:
- irclogger, a python IRC client writing text logs in the MIRC format.
- CGI shell scripts, (bash) to be used from a web server to format the logs into html and provide searching in them.
Enhancements:
- Bugfix for python 2.3:
- Crashed when somebody said in a channel: [LOGGER], off the format of args passed to the function had changed
- Crashed when no more channels were logged
- Would not remove a channel from the list of logged chans for next time when kicked out of it

DMDirc project is a new cross platform IRC client written in java

DMDirc was started to address the lack of a good IRC client for Linux, it can however be run on any java capable platform, including OSX and window. While there are plenty of reasonable clients, most are lacking in one respect or another. We hope that DMDirc will fill this gap.

We are accepting feature requests and bug reports to our issue tracker at Google Code.

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.