Open Source C# XMPP Software for Linux

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.

A fork of pidgin which aims to provide minor features that have not been addressed by the pidgin development team (including manual textbox resizing). See funpidgin.sf.net for details.

Jabberace project aims to implement an full-featured XMPP/Jabber server. It will also provide reusable libraries/components to develop XMPP/Jabber server and client applications.

Spider IM is (will be) a GTK+ based Jabber/XMPP client written in C# (Mono).

btTalk is an IM program for mobile platforms which wants to transform the common IM programs into small nets based in bluetooth(r) technology, also being available for the user to transfer files from one phone to other.

Julia (Jabber User-Level Interface Application) is a Jabber client. The aim of the project is to create a client with MSN-like features (games, animated icons...). Jabber is developed to be cross-platform, and it runs under Mono.