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 Quassel 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.
Quassel is a KDE IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client for KDE. It provides you a lot of the functionality similar to that of other popular IRC clients. Quassel has gone through a lot of changes to improve the usability of the application. Quassel includes tabbed browsing and notification of messages and other events.
More help is available in the Quassel Handbook.
Would you like to make a comment or contribute an update to this page?
Send feedback to the Ubuntu Documentation Project