Any chat server recommendation for Linux server?

yaelyael · 08-20-2010, 04:46 AM

Any chat server recommendation for Linux server?

Is there anyone can help me? Thanks !

EricTRA · 08-20-2010, 04:51 AM

Hello and Welcome to LinuxQuestions,

As with a lot in Linux it all comes down to choices and preferences, which ones you'll have to make based on trial. You can have a look at these sites and try them out to see which one fits your needs.

http://www.linux.org/apps/all/Daemons/Chat.html
http://www.classhelper.org/articles/...stall-p1.shtml
http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/

Kind regards,

Eric

i92guboj · 08-20-2010, 05:03 AM

I've set up chat servers in the past with inspircd, I found it to be very straightforward to set up and never had a problem with it. I only managed small home IRC servers though, with <100 persons or so.

smoker · 08-20-2010, 05:58 AM

Jabberd2 seems like it should be straight forward. I used to run the older version of jabberd quite successfully on RHEL3

http://codex.xiaoka.com/wiki/jabberd2:start
http://www.jabberdoc.org/FrontPage

sokha · 08-20-2010, 07:06 AM

For the basic chatting, I think IRC is the good option. I recommend Inspircd if you choose to IRC.

joec@home · 08-20-2010, 08:30 PM

This would not be for the beginning Linux user, but if you have programming skills Bahamut is rock solid and has options to run as stand alone or be on a larger open source network. Fair warning though, you will be spending a week reading the documentation, and another week building different versions to find the tweak that best suites your needs.

DALnet's IRCd - Bahamut
http://www.dal.net/?page=Bahamut

Elv13 · 08-20-2010, 08:50 PM

Any open source jabber server. Jabber is more flexible than anything else, but if IRC is just fine, it is easier to manage. The 3 last shop I worked with had internal jabber server for file transfer and chat.

vickey · 08-23-2010, 12:53 AM

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08-20-10 04:46 AM
yaelyael Any chat server recommendation for Linux server?

123 Flash Chat is the nicest, most user-friendly chat room I have ever come across.

http://www.123flashchat.com

sag47 · 08-23-2010, 09:32 AM

There's also AJAX Chat which can be designed with a MySQL backend for user authentication. It's also a plugin for several popular forums including phpBB and LQ's vBulletin.

Check it out.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ajax-chat/