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Pidgin IM

A universal instant messaging (IM) program

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.

Downloads: 5,900 This Week

Last Update: 2025-09-30
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Mibew Messenger 1.x

"Mibew Messenger" - is unique software allowing visitors of your site to chat with your operators. This repo should be treated as an obsolete. For modern version of Mibew Messenger see https://sourceforge.net/projects/mibew/

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Downloads: 6 This Week

Last Update: 2017-08-31
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Mibew Messenger 3

Mibew Messenger is an open-source live support application allowing visitors of your site to chat with your operators.

Downloads: 27 This Week

Last Update: 2023-05-30
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KMess - Live Messenger client for KDE

MSN/Live Messenger chat client for Linux.

KMess is an MSN/Live Messenger compatible chat client for Linux. The strength of KMess is it's integration with the KDE desktop environment, focus on Live Messenger specific features and an easy-to-use interface.

Downloads: 1 This Week

Last Update: 2013-11-10
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