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Centericq is a
text mode
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menu- and window-driven
instant messaging
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interface that supports the
ICQ,
Yahoo!
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,
AIM,
MSN
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The Microsoft Net ...
,
IRC
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,
XMPP
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,
LiveJournal
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American programmer Brad Fitzpatrick started LiveJournal on April 15, 1999, as ...
, and
Gadu-Gadu
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protocols.
Overview
Centericq allows you to send, receive, and forward messages, URLs, SMSes (both through the
ICQ server and email gateways supported by
Mirabilis), contacts, and email express messages, and it has many other useful features. Known to work in
Linux
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,
FreeBSD
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,
NetBSD
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,
OpenBSD
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,
Solaris
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,
Windows
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and
macOS
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/Darwin Operating Systems.
Its heyday was in the first half-decade of the 2000s, with reviews appearing in
Softpedia
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Website
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,
Czech
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Places
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online magazines ''ABC Linux'' and ''Linux.cz''. It was recommended in a 2004
OSNews
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article on console applications, and in a similar article in the Russian magazine
Computerra
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. Two tutorial articles appeared in the German magazine
LinuxUser
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in 2001 and 2004; the latter article appeared in the English version of
Linux Magazine
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. It was included in a 2002 round-up of ICQ clients in the Russian XAKEP magazine, and in a 2005 round-up review of IRC Clients in
Free Software Magazine
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It was started in November 2004 by Australi ...
.
[Martin Brown (7 September 2005]
"Free IRC clients, Choosing the best IRC client for your needs"
, Free Software Magazine
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issue 7, web pages 2-3 The FSM reviewer noted CenterICQ for its windows-like interface built on top of the usual
curses
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library, which provides much information, but can look cluttered on smaller terminal windows, including the standard 80 by 25 terminal. It found that IRC support was "excellent" due to support for multiple servers and channels and the ease of switching between them in the “windowed” interface.
[ In September 2002, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols found it "the greatest of all console IM clients" due to its "excellent interface and a huge number of features and configuration options" in a category review on ]Freshmeat
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. In 2005 it was reviewed in The Unofficial Apple Weblog
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; despite support for .mac
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accounts, the reviewer noted "annoying key combos" required to access the menus, because on Mac OS X
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the usual function key
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assignments of CenterICQ could not be used. Though he could not access the MSN network, he concluded: "All things considered, I've decided that Centericq is the most stable and intuitive terminal based chat client."
In August 2007, the project's (then) website stated that CenterICQ development was "dead", and that the website would be shut down in November 2007. The site referred users to the ''CenterIM'' fork of the project. The developers of the CenterIM fork applied several security patches and updates. , CenterIM was still in development, with version 4.22.9 released on December 14. Neither CenterICQ nor CenterIM 4 support Unicode
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, but support for UTF-8
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is planned for CenterIM 5."FAQ"
. CenterIM.org. Accessdate 2009.
See also
*
naim
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is another text-based messaging client with support for multiple protocols
*
List of XMPP client software
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*
Comparison of instant messaging clients
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References
Further reading
* Alexandru Voiculescu (September 2002
"Interview with Konstantin Klyagin" PC Magazine
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Romania
original in Romanian* Petr Krčmář (12 March 2007)
"Interview with the CenterICQ author, Konstantin Klyagin" root.cz
External links
*
CenterIM - CenterICQ fork
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