MIRC free substitute. Chat client

Asked By danny 200 points N/A Posted on - 05/29/2011

Hi there!

I was using mIRC to chat on IRC client. Now, a message popped-up saying  that I have consumed my free 30-day trial, so have to buy it for further usage. I was wondering if there are some open sources folks out there who shout about freedom.

Do they have anything like it?

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Answered By doglus 0 points N/A #110196

MIRC free substitute. Chat client

Certainly.

There are some open source wonderful Messengers like Mirunda, Pidgin etc., these are unique because, they not only work for IRC but also on a variety of regular Messaging Systems like Gmail and Hotmail.

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Answered By danny 200 points N/A #110197

MIRC free substitute. Chat client

I tried to install Pidgin, but its not working for some GTK or something. The installer stops at the time it reaches "download GTK".

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Answered By doglus 0 points N/A #110198

MIRC free substitute. Chat client

I don’t know your full problem, but you can also try "xchat”.  It is a very comprehensive and powerful tool, only targeted for IRC. Has a lot of similarities with mIRC, so it would be a good option and it is open source too.

http://xchat.org/

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Answered By danny 200 points N/A #110199

MIRC free substitute. Chat client

Thanks, this was kind of substitute I was looking for.

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Answered By danny 200 points N/A #110200

MIRC free substitute. Chat client

Sorry for my earlier happy face. It's not free as you said! I thought you meant really free or does open source differ from being really free?

It gives me the same registration notice at the top, stating that I have 30 more days to register!

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Answered By doglus 0 points N/A #110201

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Ooops ! I forgot the Windows version of xchat is proprietary. I guess you are on MS Windows. You still have an option.

http://www.silverex.org/download/

Built from the very source code of open source project xchat. This is the way open source prevents soft wares from being commercial from free.

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Answered By danny 200 points N/A #110202

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Thanks! That’s a really nice job done there! I am really impressed. It looked better than the original one.

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