Chatting with friends and family is one of the more popular uses of the Internet. Kubuntu provides you with the necessary applications in order to do so. There are two main chat clients in Kubuntu; Kopete for all of your instant messaging needs and Konversation for chatting on IRC (Internet Relay Chat).
Kopete is the KDE instant messaging (IM) client. It provides you all of the functionality similar to that of other popular IM clients today. With Kopete you can setup accounts for:
AIM (AOL Instant Messenger)
Gadu-Gadu
GroupWise
ICQ
IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
Jabber
Meanwhile
MSN-Messenger
Yahoo
More help is available in the Kopete Handbook.
Konversation is the KDE IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client for KDE. It provides you a lot of the functionality similar to that of other popular IRC clients today. Some of the included functionality of Konversation is:
User-friendly tabbed interface
Customizable Quick Buttons for often-used commands
Visual and auditory notification for a wide variety of events
On-screen display (OSD) of messages
More help is available in the Konversation Handbook.