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Some popular instant messengers only create application for Windows user. If you want to be Linux user you don’t need to worry about lost contact with your friend on your instant messenger. You can still chat with them because there are some softwares that you can be used to connect your favorite instant messenger.

Below 25 instant messenger that is built for for linux. Remember, all softwares are free.

aMSN Messenger
aMSN is a free open source instant messenger for MSN user. It comes with rich features like offline messenging, multi-language, and webcam support, sign in to more than one account at once, chat logs, conference and more. You can also add plugin and themes to make aMSN more powerful.

Ayttm
Ayttm is universal instant messenging client that support AIM, ICQ, IRC, Jabber MSN, and Yahoo

BitlBee
BitlBee is designed to allow you connect to your favorite IM using IRC client. BitlBee currently supports the following IM networks/protocols: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber, Windows Live Messenger, and Yahoo!

Centericq
Centericq is looks like dos program. It’s small and powerful. It allow you to connect multiple account and do some importance thing that you usually do with your IM program.

Digsby
Digsby is designed also for checking email or status on your popular social network like Facebook.

Emesene
Emesene is a “clone” of Windows Live Messenger with simpler, cleaner and easier to use interface. You can add plugin to make your Emesene more powerful

Empathy
Empathy is the default chat client in current versions of GNOME. Empathy supports text, voice, video chat and file transfers over many different protocols like Facebook Chat, Google Talk, Gadu-gadu, MSN, Yahoo, and more

Gajim
Gajim is instant messenger for Jabber user. It has features like tabbed chat window and single window modes, file transfer, multiple accounts, and more.

Galaxium
Galaxium is designed for connecting to MSN, Jabber, and IRC. One good thing is the developer write on the website what new feature will be added on next version.

Gossip
Gossip is another instant messaging client that use Jabber as the protocol. It has some features like group chatting, transfer files, log conversation, spell checker, and more.

GYache Improved
GYache Improved is “clone” Yahoo! instant messenger. It has chat audio on the chat rooms, webcam, and more

Instantbird
Instantbird is an all in one instant messenger that uses the Mozilla rendering engine to display IMs, and the Pidgin libpurple to connect to the different networks. You can add plugin and theme to make your Instantbird more powerful.

Jabbim
Jabbim is used to connect to Jabber servers as well as Google Talk service and also closed networks like AIM, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo!

KMess
KMess is design only for MSN Messenger. If your MSN connection is blocked by firewall, you can still connect to MSN using this software. Because this software makes the MSN connection to look like normal web traffic, which usually passes free through the firewall.

Kopete
Kopete is an all in one instant messenger that supporting AIM, Gadu-Gadu, ICQ, Jabber, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo, and more. The interface is simple but easy to be understood.

Licq
Licq is another program that is created to connect with ICQ in Linux.

Mercury
Mercury is Java MSN instant messenger. It means you must have Java run on your Linux in order to run this instant messenger.

Monkey Messenger
Monkey Messenger is an open source MSN client that has features like display pictures, tabbed chat windows, emoticons, nudges and more

Naim
Naim is console program to connect with multiple instant messenger. The interface is like dos program. It support AIM, ICQ, IRC, and Lily IMC Client.

Pidgin
Pidgin is an easy to use and free chat client that supports many instant messengers. It support adding plugin too.

Psi
Psi is designed to be fast and lightweight cross platform instant messaging application. It uses Jabber (XMPP) for connection.

Qnext
Qnext is universal messenger to communicate with your friends. It supports AIM, Google Talk, iChat, IRC, Jabber, MSN, and Yahoo.

Sim-IM
Sim-IM is built based on the Qt library. Sim-IM support rich-text messages, file transfer, typing notification, registration of new accounts, and more

Skype
You can use Skype to call Skype user by free and with low rate for people who don’t have Skype. You can also use Skype for video calling or just chatting as usual.

ysmICQ
ysmICQ is built to connect with ICQ on Linux. This console program has many funny and interesting features.