ircc is a simple IRC client. It’s written in the C programming language and requires the ncurses library to compile.
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glirc – advanced console IRC client
glirc is built around a philosophy that the client maintains a model of the IRC connection state and provides various views of that model.
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6 Small Free and Open Source Console Menu Utilities
This article looks at six tiny utilities that offer menu facilities.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: telnet
This article spotlights alternative tools to telnet, a tool to login to a remote system.
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percol – interactive grep tool in your terminal
percol is an interactive grep tool in your terminal. This tool is written in the Python programming language and is open source software.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: talk
This article spotlights alternative tools to talk, a venerable talk client.
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YTalk – multi-user chat program
YTalk is in essence a multi-user chat program supporting both talk and ntalk protocols.
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utalk – UDP-based talk
utalk is a one-to-one text chat program alternative to the Unix ‘talk’ client, which uses a more responsive protocol built over UDP (instead of TCP).
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ntalk – chat application
ntalk is a chat application. It is designed to be much more friendly than Unix talk and provide a nice console interface.
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ttyper – terminal-based typing test
ttyper is a terminal-based typing test. It supports a good range of languages including English, German, Norwegian, Ukrainian, and Spanish.
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