Communication applications that run on Linux

Communication applications and protocols that run on Linux.

This list may be incomplete.


 * AIM
 * Brosix
 * Discord (requires Pulseaudio or Apulse for voice calls) (buggy)
 * Facebook Messenger
 * Gadu-Gadu
 * Gale
 * Google Talk
 * ICQ
 * IRC
 * Jabber (XMPP)
 * Jitsi
 * Mattermost
 * Mumble
 * Novell Groupwise
 * Rocket.Chat
 * Sametime
 * Signal
 * Simple
 * SIP (Linphone)
 * Skype (very buggy)
 * Slack
 * Microsoft Teams
 * Teamspeak
 * Telegram
 * Threema
 * Viber
 * Whatsapp
 * Wire
 * Zephyr
 * Zoom (very buggy)
 * Anything that works in Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome or any of the other Web browsers that run on Linux
 * BSD Talk ;-)