I’m using this setup for quite a while now. It’s great in many ways – here some of the reasons:
- I can access it from multiple hosts at once
- I can use one unified user interface for all instant messenger protocols and IRC
- I can access the platform even through my mobile phone via GPRS / WLAN
- I have logs of all communications in one central place
This is how a few free software components work together to make it possible:
Overview (OpenDocument format)
Or as PNG file (rendered with GIMP):
