Open Source Server Operating Systems IRC Clients

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.

A graphical notification plugin for the instant message client gaim. Now hosted at http://plugins.guifications.org/trac

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.

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

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.

A multiplayer RPG that connects as a psuedo server to an IRCD. Built in the tradition of old BBS Door games such as LORD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_of_the_Red_Dragon). Forest fights add experience and gold needed to best your master (gain level

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.

A small, modular IRC bot written in C. On startup, reads an XML configuration file. Uses dynamic modules to implement actual functionality (friends lists, auto-opping, etc).

Nebula: A small and lean IRC client written for motif/lesstif. Small system requirements, speed, portability, security and a clean GUI are its strong points.

WebBot is a flexible IRC bot written in C capable of extracting information from a custom list of websites, including searchable ones, using regular expression patterns. HTTP GET and POST methods supported as well as HTTP redirects.

We have moved to http://sv.gnu.org/projects/erc. ERC is a powerful, modular, and extensible IRC client for Emacs and XEmacs. Full documentation can be found on the wiki by following the "Home Page" link.

IceChat is an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) Client created in C# .Net 3.5/Mono. Website is at www.icechat.net. It is meant to work as a cross-platform friendly irc client with the Mono Framework.

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

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.

The IRCd Conf manager util aims at automating ircd tasks such as configuration and compilation. Other options are also included such as automatich updates. This script will eventually be ready to be used for other irc networks. Requires ncurses/dialog

IRC Daemon based on UnrealIRCd with added features and enhancements, including features from Bahamut, UltimateIRCd, Hybrid and other IRCd software.

Thabot is an alternative IRC bot for channel administration, developed by french people, written in C and working on several platforms including Windows and un*x systems. Its use is very simple, quick, with level and dynamic level user access, and more t

This is a collection of lots of XChat2 plugins.

A resource-conscientious, flexible, modular, platform-independent, scalable and robust server based on ircd-ratbox.

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).

Unreal is a IRCd based on the Dreamforge branch of IRCd, with the goal to provide a solution to network who want features and stability - and support. Its goal is to compete against both commercial and opensource ircds of same kind.