Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log into accounts on a pair of chat
networks simultaneously. This implies that you just can be talking to chums on
XMPP and sitting in an IRC channel on the identical time.
Pidgin runs on Windows, Linux, and more than a few UNIX-cherish working systems. Taking a search
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Pidgin is cherish minded with the following chat networks out of the box:
Hiss/XMPP, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus
Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr. It may per chance well toughen many extra with
plugins.
Pidgin supports many substances of these chat networks, equivalent to file transfers,
away messages, buddy icons, personalized smileys, and typing notifications. Quite quite a bit of
plugins additionally lengthen Pidgin’s functionality above and beyond the bizarre
substances.
Pidgin is beneath fixed development. Releases are most incessantly frequent and driven
by user contributions, equivalent to
concerns and
contributions.
Pidgin is free and contains no classified ads. All our code is birth provide and licensed
beneath the GNU Traditional Public License. This implies you may per chance per chance well also collect Pidgin’s underlying
code and modify it to suit your wants, as prolonged as you put up the modifications you
fabricate for everybody to assemble pleasure from as neatly.
Pidgin is translated into many assorted languages, as a consequence of the beneficiant contributions of our
volunteer translators.