Open Source Server Operating Systems Chat Software

See https://pidgin.im/about/ for more information. Pidgin is an instant messaging program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. It runs on Windows, Linux, and other UNIX operating systems. Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, MXit, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr. It is written in C and makes heavy use of GLib and GTK+. Finch is a command line instant messaging program. It also lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat network simultaneously, and it is compatible with the same chat networks as Pidgin. It is written in C and makes heavy use of GLib and ncurses.

BeeBEEP is a free, open-source, peer-to-peer (P2P) desktop LAN chat and office messenger built with end-to-end encryption (Rijndael Algorithm, AES). Designed for local area networks, this free cross-platform messaging app enables instant messaging, group chat, and secure file sharing across your office, home, or intranet—completely serverless and offline. Whether you need a private LAN chat application for your team or a secure office communicator over VPN, BeeBEEP operates without central servers or cloud dependencies. It is a free, serverless chat solution for Windows, Linux, and macOS where privacy, data security, and local network communication are essential.

The gSOAP toolkit is an extensive suite of portable C and C++ software to develop XML Web services with powerful type-safe XML data bindings. Easy-to-use code-generator tools allow you to directly integrate XML data in C and C++. Serializes native application data in XML. Includes WSDL/XSD schema binding and auto-coding tools, stub/skeleton compiler, Web server integration with Apache module and IIS extension, high-performance XML processing with schema validation, fast MIME/MTOM streaming, SOAP and REST Web API development, WS-* protocols (WS-Security, WS-Policy, WS-ReliableMessaging, etc), XML-RPC and JSON. Licensed under GPLv2. Visit the developer center with guides, tutorials, and examples at www.genivia.com/dev.html The documentation of the toolkit, libraries, plugins and more is available at www.genivia.com/docs.html Commercial-use licenses and expert technical support services are available at competitive pricing levels, please visit www.genivia.com/products.html

A very nice MSN compatible messenger application, aMSN Messenger is a multiplatform MSN messenger clone. Works pretty much like its Windows based counterpart. Perfect for keeping in touch with those friends who have not yet seen the light. Works on linux

Xivio.com was a commercial children's virtual world website created in 2006 by Gavin Conrad. This is the legacy World Server Java Core made available to the world to do with as it wishes.

Bot Sentry is a Pidgin (libpurple) plugin to prevent Instant Message (IM) spam. It allows you to ignore IMs unless the sender is in your Buddy List, the sender is in your Allow List, or the sender correctly answers a question you have predefined.

YSM is a simple ICQ client based on the v7/v8 icq protocol version. Free of external libraries requirements, written in the C Language.

IRCD-Hybrid is a lightweight, high-performance Internet Relay Chat server.

libircclient is a small but powerful library, which implements client-server IRC protocol. It has all features needed to create your own IRC client or bot, including multi-threading support, sync and async interfaces, CTCP/DCC support, colors, SSL connections and so on.

VooDoo cIRCle is modular IRC bot, scriptable thanks to PHP and Perl, with built-in SSL support, File System, private BotNet and advanced security rights for each user. Runs on POSIX/Unices, Windows and Mac OS X.

A pidgin plugin that allows user to assign global hotkeys (e.g. Ctrl+Alt+g) for togglling buddy list and reading queued message. When "Toggle List" hotkey is enabled, it makes the buddy list hidden from your taskbar and task switcher (similar to ICQ).

icqlib is the most feature complete, open source, library implementation of Mirabilis' ICQ protocol available on the Internet. icqlib currently supports approximately 90% of the ICQ UDP v5 protocol and 80% of the ICQ TCP v2 protocol.

The MXControl project aims to create a set of tools to extend and administrate the Chat-channels on the WinMX Peernetwork. Part of this projects are BendMX that adds features to the Chat, and a full featured Chatbot for administrative and other tasks.

A fork of pidgin which aims to provide minor features that have not been addressed by the pidgin development team (including manual textbox resizing). See funpidgin.sf.net for details.

[ Please read https://sourceforge.net/p/darkbot/news/2014/01/darkbots-revitalization/ ] Darkbot is a portable IRC chat robot written in the C language that can be taught responses to user inquiries, and even have conversations with them. Darkbot was originally created by Jason Hamilton as an aid for help channels on Intenet Relay Chat.

Denora is a set of Stats Services for IRC networks that allows IRC network admins to get a complete and comprehensive overview of their IRC network. Denora exports this information to MySQL, HTML XML and flatfile databases.

Instant Messenger gui made with nice Fishs. Written in python. (now only Gtk, may be later we use Qt and others). Main objetives are: be nice, fast, usable, portable, and sopport different free messengers systems/backends

JIB - Java IM Bot, aimed to built a pluggable, customizable, expandable and dynamic bot framework for instant messager. With JIB user can control remote IM Bots over web based interface, configure bots to perform various tasks or custom behavior.

psyBNC is an easy-to-use, multi-user, permanent IRC-Bouncer with many features. Some of its features include symmetric ciphering of talk and connections (Blowfish and IDEA) It compiles on Linux, FreeBSD, SunOs and Solaris.

AServ is a fully featured IRC Service written in TCL to provide stable services to both network operators, and users. AServ uses Undernets P10 protocol to communicate with servers. Bugs and Requests should be made at http://AServ.ownage.org.uk

The RISC OS ICQ client.

AlterEego intends to re-create the popular server system, Second Life. Base code from OpenSim, used under BSD License.

RaidBot is a TCL based script for an EggDrop which provides features to organise attacks on Planetarion ( http://www.planetarion.com/ ) via IRC.

Bazaar is a multifunction system that does Web Conferencing, IRC chat, link management, and sgml publication (for the ICAAP system). Bazaar uses MySQL at the back end and features customizable interfaces, API, multiple languages and a host of other f