Communication applications that run on Linux

From Linux Advocacy

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 ;-)