Text-based Internet
This group includes text-based email, Web, and chat clients. These applications do not require the X Window System.
- abook - Text-based addressbook program for mutt
- archivemail - A tool for archiving and compressing old email in mailboxes
- argus - Network transaction audit tool
- bittorrent - BitTorrent swarming network file transfer tool
- cadaver - Command-line WebDAV client
- cone - CONE mail reader
- ctorrent - BitTorrent Client written in C
- ekg - A client compatible with Gadu-Gadu
- elinks - A text-mode Web browser
- epic - An ircII chat client
- fetchmail - A remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility
- iperf - Measurement tool for TCP/UDP bandwidth performance
- irssi - Modular text mode IRC client with Perl scripting
- libtranslate - Natural language translation library
- lynx - A text-based Web browser
- mew - Mew - Messaging in the Emacs World.
- mutt - A text mode mail user agent
- nail - Enhanced implementation of the mailx command
- naim - An ncurses-based console AIM, ICQ, IRC, and Lily client
- ncftp - Improved console FTP client
- ninja - Text based Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client
- nmh - A capable mail handling system with a command line interface.
- offlineimap - Powerful IMAP/Maildir synchronization and reader support
- pork - Console based AIM client that looks like ircII
- rss2email - Deliver news from RSS feeds to your smtp server as text or html mail
- rtorrent - BitTorrent client based on libtorrent
- slrn - A threaded Internet news reader
- snownews - A text mode RSS/RDF newsreader
- tftp - The client for the Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
- tin - Basic Internet news reader
- w3m - A pager with Web browsing abilities
- websec - Web Secretary - Web page monitoring software with highlighting
- xprobe2 - Xprobe2 is an active operating system fingerprinting tool
- yafc - Yet Another FTP/SFTP Client