[TriLUG] Jabber - IRC question

[Lee Fickenscher]

On Jun 11, 2005, at 10:10 AM, Jason Tower wrote:

> lest anyone feel excluded from the inside joke here, allow me to  
> explain
> :)  aaron, joel, and i had a little, uh, discussion the other day  
> about
> the merits of jabber vs. irc.  while i will admit that i have never  
> used
> jabber for any significant length of time, i've been using irc for  
> several
> years now and have really come to like it.  so in a manner  
> befitting gnome
> vs. kde or emacs vs. vi, here are my particular reasons for liking  
> irc:
>
> - irc is text based, no gui required.  which means that the irc  
> client can
> be used on just about any *nix system, including very old hardware  
> or a
> server which may not have X installed.
> <snip>

There is actually no requirement for a gui in jabber spec. There are  
already a handful of CLI jabber clients available at jabber.org. :)